What kind of sensory receptors responsible for touch sensations are found in the papillae that project into the ridges of the fingertips?

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23 May 2018
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The sensory receptors located in the papillae extending into the fingertip ridges are hair end organs. Meissner’s corpuscles and Pacinian corpuscles are other types of mechanoreceptors but are situated differently.

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