Usually means: Sensitive nerve ending; touch receptor.
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  1. tactile corpuscle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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▸ noun:  Tactile corpuscles or Meissner's corpuscles are a type of mechanoreceptor discovered by anatomist Georg Meissner and Rudolf Wagner.


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