L3.6.2: Skin Receptors

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    • Meissner’s corpuscles are light touch receptors found in the dermal papillae
    • Free nerve endings are sensitive to painful stimuli, to hot and cold, and to light and touch
    • Ruffini’s ending detect skin stretch and deformations, detect warmth
    • Pacinian receptors detect pressure and vibration by being compressed
    • End bulb of Krause thermoreceptors that detects cold
    Skin receptors