GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The skin possesses many sensory receptors in the epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis, which allows for discrimination of touch such as pressure differences (light vs. deep). Other qualities of the external world assessed by skin sensory receptors includes temperature, pain, and itch.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cutaneous receptors Four receptor structures of the glabrous skin provide this information: Merkel discs, Meissner corpuscles, Pacinian corpuscles, and Ruffini endings.

Detailed explanation-3: -The epidermis also contains very sensitive cells called touch receptors that give the brain a variety of information about the environment the body is in. The second layer of skin is the dermis.