Ruffinin.

1897 Proc. Royal Soc. 61 248 The terminal arborisation which the nerve-fibres finally make is as a rule small as compared with the end-arborisations of ordinary Kühne-Ruffini ‘spindles’ or the Golgi ‘tendon-organs’.]

1898 Rep. 67th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1897 811 The ribbon-like nonmedullated fibres terminate by branching and ending in disc-like expansion—flower-like endings of Ruffini.

1900 Jrnl. Compar. Neurol. 10 175 The author [sc. Ruffini] thus distinguishes this spindle, which may bear his name, from the neuro-tendinous end-organs of Golgi... The Ruffini organ is composed of connective and elastic tissue.

1913 D. R. Major Elements Psychol. ii. 59 Ruffini's corpuscles are comparatively large bodies and lie in the deeper layers of the skin.

1981 A. Brodal Neurol. Anat. (ed. 3) ii. 51 Another type of slowly adapting receptor..has a resting discharge that increases when a mechanical stimulus is applied to the skin. These receptors..are found in the dermis and appear to be Ruffini endings.

2009 Jrnl. Biomechanics 42 116/2 There are four different mechanoreceptors, i.e., the Pacinian corpuscle, Ruffini's endings, Meissner's corpuscles, and Merkel cells, which are embedded at different depths within the soft tissues.