See Also: flower-spray organ of Ruffini(medicine)
flower-spray ending(medicine)
Ruffini(dictionary)
Ruffini, Angelo(medicine)
Ruffini's corpuscles(medicine)
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Spray(medicine)
spray(1)(dictionary)
spray(2)(dictionary)

flower-spray organ of Ruffini (medicine)


flower-spray organ of Ruffini -->
flower-spray ending


One of the two types of sensory nerve ending associated with the neuromuscular spindle (the other being the annulospiral ending); in this type, the fibre branches spread out upon the surface of the intrafusal fibres like a spray of flowers.

Synonym: flower-spray organ of Ruffini.