- Ranvier tactile disks
- cup-shaped sensory nerve endings near the menisci tactus.
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Ranvier tactile disks
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Ranvier crosses nodes segment (internode) tactile disks — Ran·vier crosses, nodes, segment (internode), tactile disks (rahn vyaґ) [Louis Antoine Ranvier, French pathologist, 1835–1922] see under cross, disk, and node, and see internodal segment under segment … Medical dictionary
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