Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pacinian_corpuscle

1 sense of pacinian corpuscle

Sense 1
Pacinian corpuscle -- (a specialized bulblike nerve ending located in the subcutaneous tissue of the skin; occurs abundantly in the skin of palms and soles and joints and genitals)
       => nerve ending, nerve end -- (the terminal structure of an axon that does not end at a synapse)