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Meissner's corpuscle (medicine)


Meissner's corpuscle -->
tactile corpuscle


One of numerous oval bodies found in the papillae of the skin, especially those of the fingers and toes; they consist of a connective tissue capsule in which the axon fibrils terminate around and between a pile of wedge-shaped epithelioid cells.

Synonym: corpusculum tactus, Meissner's corpuscle, oval corpuscle, touch corpuscle.