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tendons, intermuscular septa, periosteum, peritoneum, pleura, and pericardium. 

 They are also numerous in the neighborhood of the joints. According to Her- 

 rick (1918) it is probable that "by these end organs relatively coarse pressure 

 may be discriminated and localized (exteroceptive function), and movements 

 of muscles and joints can be recognized (proprioceptive function)." They are 



1 hst 



Tt is 



Fig. 46. Nerves and nerve endings in the skin and hair-follicles: hst, Stratum corneum; rm, 

 stratum germinativum Malpighii; c, most superficial nerve-fiber plexus in the cutis; n, cutaneous 

 nerve; is, inner root sheath of hair; as, outer root sheath; h, the hair itself; dr, glandulae sebaceae. 

 (Retzius, Barker.) 



large oval corpuscles, made up in great part of concentric lamellae of connective 

 tissue. The axis of the corpuscle is occupied by a core of semifluid substance 

 containing the termination of a nerve-fiber. The fiber loses its myelin sheath 

 as it enters the core, through which it passes from end to end. Its terminal 

 branches end in irregular disks. Side branches are also given off within the core. 



