NERVOUS
NEURONS TYPES
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Question
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Touch receptors that allow you to feel the tickle of a feather.
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Golgi tendon organ
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Lamellar corpuscle
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Meissner’s corpuscle
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Free nerve endings
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Meissner’s Corpuscles These nerve endings are located just beneath the skin in very sensitive areas like your lips and your fingertips. The fact that they are superficially located may help explain why they deal primarily with the sensation of light touch, like a feather brushing up against your skin.
Detailed explanation-2: -Tactile corpuscles or Meissner’s corpuscles are a type of mechanoreceptor discovered by anatomist Georg Meissner (1829–1905) and Rudolf Wagner. This corpuscle is a type of nerve ending in the skin that is responsible for sensitivity to pressure.
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