| Pacini | Filippo, Italian anatomist, 1812-1883. See: pacinian corpuscles, Vater-Pacini corpuscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Pacini, Fillippo | <person> Was an Anatomist and Histologist. Appointed Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in Pisa and later (1849) in Florence. Pacini's Corpuscles, Bodies - end organs of sensory nerves - corpusculum lamellosum. They are sometimes known as Pacini-Vater corpuscles, having previously been described by Abraham Vater (q.v.) in 1741. Lived: 1812-1883. B. Pistoja, Emilia, Italy, May 25th, 1812, d. Florence, Jul 9th, 1883. (05 Dec 1998) |
| Vater-Pacini corpuscles | Small oval bodies in the skin of the fingers, in the mesentery, tendons, and elsewhere, formed of concentric layers of connective tissue with a soft core in which the axon of a nerve fibre runs, splitting up into a number of fibrils that terminate in bulbous enlargements; they are sensitive to pressure. Synonym: corpuscula lamellosa, pacinian corpuscles, Vater's corpuscles, Vater-Pacini corpuscles. (05 Mar 2000) |