RUFFINI'S CORPUSCLE


Meaning of RUFFINI'S CORPUSCLE in English

/rooh fee"neez/ , Anat.

an end organ of certain sensory neurons that branches out parallel to the skin and responds to steady pressure.

[ after Italian anatomist Angelo Ruffini (1874-1929), who described them in 1898 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .