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CORPUSCULA LAMELLOSA [1 record]

Record 1 2006-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nervous System
DEF

The small oval bodies in the skin of the fingers, in the mesentery, tendons, and elsewhere, formed of concentric layers of connective tissue with a soft core in which the axon of a nerve fiber runs, splitting up into a number of fibrils that terminate in bulbous enlargements; they are sensitive to pressure.

Key term(s)
  • pacinian corpuscle
  • Vater corpuscle
  • Vater-Pacini corpuscle
  • lamellated corpuscle
  • corpusculae lamellosae

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système nerveux
CONT

Les récepteurs sensibles à la vibration se situent dans le tissu adipeux sous-cutané, dans le derme, les tissus conjonctifs, dans les tendons, les articulations et les muscles faciaux. Ce sont les corpuscules de Pacini.

Key term(s)
  • corpuscule de Pacini
  • corpuscule de Vater-Pacini
  • corpusculae lamellosae
  • corpuscule lamelleux
  • corpuscule lamellaire

Spanish

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