- A
mechanoreceptor, also
called mechanoceptor, is a
sensory receptor that
responds to
mechanical pressure or distortion.
Mechanoreceptors are
located on...
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Tactile corpuscles or Meissner's
corpuscles are a type of
mechanoreceptor discovered by
anatomist Georg Meissner (1829–1905) and
Rudolf Wagner. This corpuscle...
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lamellar corpuscle, or Vater-Pacini corpuscle) is a low-threshold
mechanoreceptor responsive to
vibration or pressure,
found in the skin and
other internal...
- A
mechanoreceptor is a
sensory organ or cell that
responds to
mechanical stimulation such as touch, pressure, vibration, and
sound from both the internal...
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Breastfeeding by the baby
stimulates slowly and
rapidly adapting mechanoreceptors that are
densely packed around the
areolar region. Paget's disease...
- hair
cells (hearing and balance), and a
number of
other different mechanoreceptors for
touch and
proprioception (stretch,
distortion and stress). The...
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types of
mechanoreceptor in the skin are
termed low-threshold
mechanoreceptors, and high
threshold mechanoreceptors. The four
mechanoreceptors in glabrous...
- corpuscle,
Ruffini ending or
Ruffini corpuscle is a
slowly adapting mechanoreceptor located in the
cutaneous tissue between the
dermal papillae and the...
-
light touch. For this
reason they are
classified as ‘low-threshold
mechanoreceptors’. As
group C
nerve fibers, they are
unmyelinated and have slow conduction...
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Stretch receptors are
mechanoreceptors responsive to
distention of
various organs and muscles, and are
neurologically linked to the
medulla in the brain...
