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Eimer's organ
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- UBERON:0011255
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- Definition
- A sensory organ in which the epidermis is modified to form bulbous papillae. The organs are formed from a stack of epidermal cells, which is innervated by nerve processes from myelinated fibers in the dermis, which form terminal swellings just below the outer keratinized layer of epidermis. They contain a Merkel cell-neurite complex in the epidermis and a lamellated corpuscle in the dermal connective tissue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eimer's_organ
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- Eimer's:organ
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