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and are responsible for the ability of our finger tips to feel fine detailed surface patterns (e.g. for reading Braille).Merkel's discs have small receptive fields which allow for them to detect fine spatial separation. They also have two point discrimination.

Eponym

Merkel's discs are named after German anatomist Friedrich Merkel (1845-1919), who was 30 years old when he described them.

Diseases

Merkel endings are the first to

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