- Vater-Pacini corpuscle
- Va·ter-Pa·ci·ni corpuscle (fahґter pah-cheґne) [A. Vater; Filippo Pacini, Italian anatomist, 1812–1883] pacinian corpuscle; see under corpuscle.
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Vater-Pacini corpuscle
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