Quain's elements of anatomy . andnuclei, so arranged as to give the little body somewhat the aspect of aminiatme fir-cone. It would appear however that a soft core, like that ofthe Pacinian corpuscles to be presently described, does not in realityexist in these corpuscles, but that the main substance of the touch-body is composed of connective tissue, prolonged inwards fromthe capsule in the form, of imperfect membranous septa (fig. 163 A),between which are supported the convolutions and ramifications ofj the nerves, and the enlargements in Avhich the branches of the axis-;| cylinder eventuall
Quain's elements of anatomy . andnuclei, so arranged as to give the little body somewhat the aspect of aminiatme fir-cone. It would appear however that a soft core, like that ofthe Pacinian corpuscles to be presently described, does not in realityexist in these corpuscles, but that the main substance of the touch-body is composed of connective tissue, prolonged inwards fromthe capsule in the form, of imperfect membranous septa (fig. 163 A),between which are supported the convolutions and ramifications ofj the nerves, and the enlargements in Avhich the branches of the axis-;| cylinder eventually end (small tactile cells according to Merkel). These;j terminal enlargements, which are either pyriform or globular in shape,are always placed near the capsule, and in small tactile corpuscles mayoccasionally project beyond it. On entering the corpuscle the nerve-fibres for the most part lose their medullary sheath, but some retainit for a short while, or it may reappear here and there in the course Fig. 162. Fiff. 163. Ep.
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