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Ruffini's corpuscle

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[roo-fee-neez] / ruˈfi niz /

noun

Anatomy.

  1. an end organ of certain sensory neurons that branches out parallel to the skin and responds to steady pressure.

Etymology

Origin of Ruffini's corpuscle

After Italian anatomist Angelo Ruffini (1874–1929), who described them in 1898

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