tactile corpuscle

Meissner's corpuscles (or tactile corpuscles) are a type of mechanoreceptor.

Different types of tactile corpuscles allow us sensing thermal property of the object, pressure, vibration frequency, and stimuli location.

Taylor (1996) postulates that "the ridged band with its unique structure, tactile corpuscles and other nerves, is primarily sensory tissue".

The tactile corpuscles of Grandry (or bulboid corpuscle) occur in the papillæ of the beak and tongue of birds.