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Meissner's corpuscle (medicine) and Andromimetophilia (health)


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.


Andromimetophilia (health)


A paraphilia of the stigmatic/eligibilic type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to, and contingent on a partner who is an andromimetic or, in some instances, a sex-reassigned, female-to-male transexual. The paraphilic counterpart in men is gynemimetophilia.