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Bulbous corpuscle
The
Bulbous corpuscle
or
Ruffini ending
or
Ruffini corpuscle
is a
slowly adapting
mechanoreceptor
found in the
cutaneous tissue
of humans. It is one of the receptors responsible for mechanoreception. It is named after
Angelo Ruffini
.
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