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Meissner’s, corpuscle, thick skin, - med & high mag.
Meissner’s tactile corpuscle is a small, oval, ct encapsulated nerve ending in the dermal papillae.The myelinated nerve fiber loses its myelin sheath and becomes ensheathed by horizontally arranged stacks of collagenous fibrils and ct cells resembling Schwann cells. Nearby dermal papillae may be seen to contain capillaries derived from arterioles deeper in the dermis. Free nerve endings (pain receptors) also end in the dermis and epidermis; these fine fibers are derived from the larger nerve bundles of the dermis.