Merkel's discs, Meissner's corpuscles, are the types of

Touch receptor

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Pain receptor

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Pressure receptor

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All of the above

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Solution

The correct option is A Touch receptor
The touch or tactile receptors on your skin are also called tangoreceptors. These are further classified into six types which include free nerve endings, root hair plexus, Merkel's discs, Meissner's corpuscles, Pacinian corpuscles and Ruffini corpuscles. Merkel's discs and Meissner's corpuscles, both are related to touch reception.
Therefore, the correct answer is option A.

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