- Merkel cell (corpuscle disk tactile cell)
- Mer·kel cell (corpuscle, disk, tactile cell) (murґkəl) [Friedrich Sigmund Merkel, German anatomist, 1845–1919] see under cell.
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Merkel cell (corpuscle disk tactile cell)
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