label: Meissner Corpuscle
label_lc: meissner corpuscle
description: "One of numerous oval bodies found in the papillae of the skin, especially those of the fingers and toes; they consist of a connective tissue capsule in which the axon fibrils terminate around and between a pile of wedge-shaped epithelioid cells. SYN corpusculum tactus, oval corpuscle, touch corpuscle."