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One of these receptors, the Pacinian corpuscle, responds to pressure and vibration.

Pacinian corpuscle Located deep in the dermis of both types of skin, Pacinian corpuscles respond to high-frequency vibration.

In fact, as the neuroscientist David Linden explained to me, it involves a predictable misread by something called a Pacinian corpuscle.

The largest of the simple forms of sense organs are bodies visible to the naked eye and called, from their discoverer Pacini, the Pacinian corpuscles.

Again, many of the nerve fibers terminate in corpuscles, the largest about 1/20 of an inch long, called Pacinian corpuscles.