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Layered capsules in the skin sense high-frequency vibration
Pacinian corpuscles respond best to vibrations around two hundred to three hundred hertz These oval structures sit deep in the dermis and hypodermis, with dozens of concentric layers around a nerve ending. The layers filter out steady pressure so the nerve fires only when vibration changes. They let a hand feel the texture of a surface or the buzz of a tool. It sits in Mondo's human body collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Layered capsules in the skin sense high-frequency vibration: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- Pacinian corpuscles respond best to vibrations around two hundred to three hundred hertz. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a human body fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Human Body shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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