| ruffin | Disordered. "His ruffin rainment all was stained with blood." (Spenser) See: Ruffian. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Ruffini's corpuscles | Sensory end-structures in the subcutaneous connective tissues of the fingers, consisting of an ovoid capsule within which the sensory fibre ends with numerous collateral knobs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ruffini, Angelo | <person> Italian histologist, 1864-1929. See: Ruffini's corpuscles, flower-spray organ of Ruffini. (05 Mar 2000) |