The relationship of the number of Meissner's corpuscles to dermatoglyphic characters and finger size

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 199, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 577-584

  Dillon, Yvonne K ^a   Haynes, Julie ^a   Henneberg, Maciej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cadavers; Fingerprints; Handedness; Histology; Mechanoreceptors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDEX FINGER; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEISSNER CORPUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DENSITY; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN SURFACE;

EID: 0035186893     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-7580.2001.19950577.x     Document Type: Article

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