Meissner’s corpuscules are the touch receptors that detect light touch.

Example of a rapidly adapted cutaneous receptor response to repeated passages of a textured roll on its receptor field.

A cutaneous receptor is a type of sensory receptor found in the dermis or epidermis.

Cutaneous receptors are sensory receptors found in the dermis or epidermis.

Like the Merkel cell, a second slowly adapting receptor also serves the skin by signalling the magnitude and duration of steady skin pressures.