Talk:Bulbous corpuscle

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This article makes no sense - how can something be a mechanoreceptor AND the respond to heat!!!

No idea, hopefully someone can look up the source and confirm or deny it, and also figure out how that sentence is supposed to parse.

I agree, I'm thinking that is incorrect or simply written with a different meaning than is communicated. I do not think the brain could discriminate the meanings of two different sensations from the same nerve receptor. Bloomingdedalus (talk) 11:56, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Id also like to add that that these receptors are not only found in skin, but many other tissue types, namely joint capsules and ligaments. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.163.65.164 (talk) 20:39, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It would make more sense that these receptors would not be heat receptors if they occur in other parts of the body. Particularly internal organs which.

On the other hand, I can see the utility in having stretch receptors in internal organs. For instance, the body tells how full the stomach or bowels are based on how much they are being stretched. I would imagine that ruffinian corpuscles are responsible for this.

Or the sensation of pain when you overextend a joint. The state is likely monitored by ruffinian corpuscles.

All things considered, and the lack.of a citation for so long seems to point strongly to the fact that they are not thermoreceptors.

They seem to base the entire argument on the fact that younlose sensation when they are burned off. Which is another dubious claim. I know that burning the nerve endings off with a 3rd degree burn leaves little, if any, sensation, but I doubt this can entirely be attributed to the deatruction of ruffinian copuscles specifically. I have no doubt that the destruction of ruffinian corpuscles contributes to the loss of sensation. But I doubt very much that it is the sole cause. VoidHalo (talk) 22:57, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And in case anyone cares to note a pop culture reference, roughly 14:30 into the 23rd episode from the 3rd season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine the Ruffini corpuscle is mentioned in passing as the punchline to a joke. 108.41.199.73 (talk) 22:36, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]