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The Pacinian corpuscle, lamellar corpuscle or Vater-Pacini corpuscle is one of the four major types of cutaneous receptor a type of mechanoreceptor (specialized...

Tactile corpuscles or Meissner's corpuscles are a type of mechanoreceptor discovered by anatomist Georg Meissner (1829–1905) and Rudolf Wagner. This corpuscle...

A renal corpuscle (or Malpighian body) is the blood-filtering component of the nephron of the kidney. It consists of a glomerulus - a tuft of capillaries...

Look up corpuscle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Corpuscle (/ˈkɔːrpəsəl/) or corpuscule, meaning a "small body", is often used as a synonym for particle...

least two anatomical structures called a Malpighian corpuscle. They are also known as: Renal corpuscles — the initial filtering component of nephrons in...

The bulbous corpuscle, Ruffini ending or Ruffini corpuscle is a slowly adapting mechanoreceptor located in the cutaneous tissue between the dermal papillae...

The bulboid corpuscles (end-bulbs of Krause, Krause corpuscles) are cutaneous receptors in the human body and that of other animals. The end-bulbs of Krause...

functional unit of the kidney. It is composed of a renal corpuscle and a renal tubule. The renal corpuscle consists of a tuft of capillaries called a glomerulus...

029. PMID 17997501. Gulliver G (1875). "On the size and shape of red corpuscles of the blood of vertebrates, with drawings of them to a uniform scale...

type 2 (SA2) mechanoreceptors, with the Ruffini corpuscle end-organ (also known as the bulbous corpuscles), detect tension deep in the skin and fascia and...

White blood cells (scientific name leukocytes), also called immune cells or immunocytes, are cells of the immune system that are involved in protecting...

Hassall's corpuscles (also known as thymic bodies) are structures found in the medulla of the human thymus, formed from eosinophilic type VI thymic epithelial...

The corpuscles of Herbst or Herbst corpuscles are nerve-endings similar to the Pacinian corpuscle, found in the mucous membrane of the tongue, in pits...

The corpuscles of Stannius are special endocrine organs in the kidney in fish and are responsible for maintaining calcium balance. They are found only...

pathway Bulbous corpuscle (Ruffini corpuscle end-organ) Tactile corpuscle (Meissner corpuscle end-organ) Merkel nerve ending (Merkel corpuscle end-organ) Neuromuscular...

The uterus (from Latin uterus, pl.: uteri) or womb (/wuːm/) is the organ in the reproductive system of most female mammals, including humans, that accommodates...

corpuscles emerged from the atoms of the trace gas inside his cathode ray tubes. He thus concluded that atoms were divisible, and that the corpuscles...

Leeuwenhoek, also Dutch, was the first to draw an illustration of "red corpuscles", as they were called. No further blood cells were discovered until 1842...

Eosinophils, sometimes called eosinophiles or, less commonly, acidophils, are a variety of white blood cells and one of the immune system components responsible...

The tactile corpuscles of Grandry or Grandry corpuscles are mechanoreceptors found in the beak skin and oral mucosa of aquatic birds. They were first...