Mechanoreceptors
Synonyms
Bulbs, Krause's End
Cell, Mechanoreceptor
Cells, Mechanoreceptor
Corpuscle, Meissner's
Corpuscles, Ruffini's
End Bulbs, Krause's
Golgi Tendon Organs
Krause End Bulbs
Krause's End Bulbs
Krauses End Bulbs
Mechanoreceptor
Mechanoreceptor Cell
Mechanoreceptor Cells
Meissner Corpuscle
Meissner's Corpuscle
Meissners Corpuscle
Neurotendinous Spindle
Neurotendinous Spindles
Organs, Golgi Tendon
Receptor, Stretch
Receptors, Stretch
Ruffini Corpuscles
Ruffini's Corpuscles
Ruffinis Corpuscles
Spindle, Neurotendinous
Spindles, Neurotendinous
Stretch Receptor
Stretch Receptors
Tendon Organs, Golgi
Cells specialized to transduce mechanical stimuli and relay that information centrally in the nervous system. Mechanoreceptor cells include the INNER EAR hair cells, which mediate hearing and balance, and the various somatosensory receptors, often with non-neural accessory structures.