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Sense heavy touch, such as pressure and vibrations
Pacinian corpuscles
“Skin nipples”
Dermal papillae
Absorbs shock and cushions our body as we move about
Adipose tissue
Contracts to raise hair on end
Arrector pili muscles
Drops off blood filled with oxygen and nutrients to the skin
Artery (or capillary loops)
Sense light touch
Meissner’s corpuscles
Tunnel that hair grows out from
Hair follicle
Sends messages from the sensory structures in the skin to the brain
Sensory nerve
Flexibly binds the skin to underlying muscle tissue
Adipose tissue
Ridges that bind the epidermis and dermis together
Dermal papillae
Takes away blood filled with carbon dioxide and waste from the skin
Vein
Oil glands
Sebaceous glands
Insulates body heat
Adipose tissue
Narrow blood vessels in the dermis that deliver blood and remove blood
Capillary loops
Sends messages from the brain to muscles and glands in the skin
Motor nerve
Sweat glands
Sudoriferous glands
Create fingerprints
Dermal papillae
Sense pain, heat, cold, itching, and tickling
Free nerve ending