A Very Large,fast-Adapting Tactile Receptor That Is Composed of a Single

question 43

Multiple Choice

A very large,fast-adapting tactile receptor that is composed of a single dendrite enclosed by concentric layers of collagen is a

• A)Ruffini corpuscle.
• B)lamellated corpuscle.
• C)tactile (Meissner)corpuscle.
• D)tactile (Merkel)disc.
• E)root hair plexus.

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