Ruffini's corpuscle
[ roo-fee-neez ]
nounAnatomy.
an end organ of certain sensory neurons that branches out parallel to the skin and responds to steady pressure.
Origin of Ruffini's corpuscle
1After Italian anatomist Angelo Ruffini (1874–1929), who described them in 1898
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