- A
mechanoreceptor, also
called mechanoceptor, is a
sensory receptor that
responds to
mechanical pressure or distortion.
Mechanoreceptors are innervated...
- A
mechanoreceptor is a
sensory organ or cell that
responds to
mechanical stimulation such as touch, pressure, vibration, and
sound from both the internal...
-
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...
- corpuscle,
Ruffini ending or
Ruffini corpuscle is a
slowly adapting mechanoreceptor located in the
cutaneous tissue between the
dermal papillae and the...
-
types of
mechanoreceptor in the skin are
termed low-threshold
mechanoreceptors, and high
threshold mechanoreceptors. The four
mechanoreceptors in glabrous...
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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...
-
organs of
gastropods include olfactory organs, eyes,
statocysts and
mechanoreceptors.
Gastropods have no hearing. In
terrestrial gastropods (land snails...
- are a part of the
somatosensory system.
Cutaneous receptors include mechanoreceptors (pressure or distortion),
nociceptors (pain), and
thermoreceptors (temperature)...
- insects,
flies have
chemoreceptors that
detect smell and taste, and
mechanoreceptors that
respond to touch. The
third segments of the
antennae and the maxillary...
