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GOLGI CORPUSCLE

An encapsulated sensory nerve ending similar to a pacinian corpuscle but simpler in structure. Tactile corpuscles found in the subcutaneous tissue of the fingertips, resembling pacinian corpuscles, but possessing fewer lamellae and a relatively larger cone, and having the contained fibres more extensively branched.