NERVE ENDINGS IN CONNECTIVE TISSUE 129 



Tactile corpuscles occur in large numbers in the cutaneous 

 papilla of the finger tips and less abundantly in other portions 

 of the skin; they have also been found in the conjunctiva 



FIG. 126. GENITAL CORPUSCLES FROM THE CLITORIS OF A RABBIT. 



A single neuraxis from the nerve plexus enters each corpuscle. Methylen blue. Highly 



magnified. ( After Eetzius. ) 



(Dogiel*). They appear to be concerned with the finer tactile 

 sensations. 



II. RUFFINrS END ORGANS. These bodies resemble the 

 tactile corpuscles in structure but possess a definite, though thin, 

 connective tissue sheath within which the terminal arborization 



FIG. 127. A PACINIAN CORPUSCLE FROM THE MESENTERY OF A CAT. 

 A, a nearly axial section ; 5, a transection. Hematein and orange G. x 410. 



of the nerve fibre is embedded in a granular core. They occur in 

 the deeper part of the true skin near its junction with the sub- 

 cutaneous tissue and in the connective tissue septa of the latter, 

 whereas the tactile corpuscles are found in the papillary layer of 



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* Arch. f. mik. Anat., 1891. 



