Definition of Pacinian corpuscle

1. Noun. A specialized bulblike nerve ending located in the subcutaneous tissue of the skin; occurs abundantly in the skin of palms and soles and joints and genitals.

Group relationships: Cutis, Skin, Tegument
Generic synonyms: Nerve End, Nerve Ending

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pacinian Corpuscle

Pacific loon
Pacific loons
Pacific newt
Pacific plum
Pacific ridley
Pacific sardine
Pacific silver fir
Pacific silver firs
Pacific spiny dogfish
Pacific sturgeon
Pacific tree toad
Pacific tripletail
Pacific walrus
Pacific yew
Pacini
Pacinian corpuscle
Packer
Packer whacker
Packer whackers
Packera
Packera aurea
Packers
Paco
Pactolian
Pactolus
Padania
Padanian
Padanians
Padda
Padda oryzivora

Literary usage of Pacinian corpuscle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Physiology of the Senses by John Gray M'Kendrick, William Snodgrass (1907)
"'^i'vl 1 Each pacinian corpuscle consists of from j. '.. - * :\ forty to fifty lamellae or capsules (Fig. 18) concentrically arranged. ..."

2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1899)
"... than an irregularly stained nuclear body, somewhat resembling a small Pacinian corpuscle, but without the characteristic striation of the latter. Fm. 2. ..."

3. Kirkes': Handbook of Physiology by William Senhouse Kirkes, William Hayden Rockwell, Charles Loomis Dana (1902)
"The peripheral capsules of the pacinian corpuscle are continuous with the ... A blood-vessel (V) enters the pacinian corpuscle, and approaches the end- ..."

4. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Scienceedited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1875)
"Stalk of a pacinian corpuscle treated with nitrate of silver, showing the two ... Small portion of a pacinian corpuscle, showing the mode of entry of the ..."

5. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1897)
"In shape the Vater-pacinian corpuscle is oval, and whitish or opal in color, and varies in size from one-twentieth to one-tenth of an inch in length, ..."

6. A Text-book of physiology by Isaac Ott (1913)
"Vater pacinian corpuscle from the Mesentery of the Cat, Fixed in a Platinum Chlorid-osmic Acid Solution. X 45. ..."

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