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Amazing presentation copy donated by the author with his handwritten dedication noteFirst and only Edition - untrimmed
Pacini, Filippo. Nuovi organi scoperti nel corpo umano / da Filippo Pacini. Pistoja : Tip. Cino, 1840.
4to (24 x 15 cm) original paper boards with printed title and decorative border, pp. 59, [1].
The discovery of the Lamellar Corpuscle
or Pacini Corpuscle
The Pacinian corpuscle, lamellar corpuscle or Vater-Pacini corpuscle is one of the four major types of mechanoreceptors (specialized nerve ending with adventitious tissue for mechanical sensation) found in mammalian skin.
This type of mechanoreceptor is found in both hairy, and hairless skin, viscera, joints, and attached to periosteum of bone, primarily responsible for sensitivity to vibration. Few of them are also sensitive to quasi-static or low frequency pressure stimulus while most of them respond only to sudden disturbances and are especially sensitive to vibration of few hundreds of Hz. The vibrational role may be used for… Read More
