Vater-Pacini corpuscles
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lam·el·lat·ed cor·pus·cles
small oval bodies in the skin of the fingers, in the mesentery, tendons, and elsewhere, formed of concentric layers of connective tissue with a soft core in which the axon of a nerve fiber runs, splitting up into a number of fibrils that terminate in bulbous enlargements; they are sensitive to pressure.
Vater-Pacini corpuscles
[fä′tər päsē′nē]
Etymology: Abraham Vater, German anatomist, 1684-1751; Filippo Pacini, Italian anatomist, 1812-1883
kinesioceptors located in joint capsules and ligaments. They may transmit nerve impulses at an increasing rate as a joint approaches its maximal range of motion and are believed to have a protective function of signaling the cerebral cortex when a joint has reached the end position of its range. They are the most complicated of the nerve endings.
Vater-Pacini corpuscles
(1) Lamellated corpuscles; corpuscula lamellosa [NH3].(2) Pacinian corpuscles, see there.
Pacini,
Filippo, Italian anatomist, 1812-1883.Pacini bodies
pacinian corpuscles - Synonym(s): Vater corpuscles
Vater-Pacini corpuscles - Synonym(s): Vater corpuscles
Vater,
Abraham, German anatomist and botanist, 1684-1751.duct of Vater - Synonym(s): Bochdalek duct
Vater ampulla - the dilation within the major duodenal papilla that normally receives both the common bile duct and the main pancreatic duct. Synonym(s): hepatopancreatic ampulla
Vater corpuscles - small oval bodies in the skin of the fingers, in the mesentery, tendons, and elsewhere sensitive to pressure. Synonym(s): lamellated corpuscles; pacinian corpuscles; Vater-Pacini corpuscles
Vater fold - a fold of mucous membrane in the duodenum just above the greater duodenal papilla.
Vater tubercle - duodenal papilla. Synonym(s): papilla of Santorini
Vater-Pacini corpuscles - Synonym(s): Vater corpuscles