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Cold & Taylor (1999) describe the innervation of the prepuce as follows:
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Although the sensory and autonomic innervation of
the penis and clitoris are similar, there is a remarkable
difference in their encapsulated somatosensory receptors.
Sensory receptors can be classified as mechanoreceptors,
e.g. Meissner’s corpuscles, Vater-Pacinian cor-
puscles (Fig. 5) and Merkel cells (Fig. 6); and nocioceptors
(free nerve endings). A multitude of names have
been used to describe these encapsulated receptors, e.g.
Krause, Dogiel, genital corpuscles, Endkalpsen and muco-cutaneous end-organs, but the term corpuscular (encapsulated) receptors will be used here to include all
of these mechanoreceptors. Most of the encapsulated
receptors of the prepuce are Meissner corpuscles, as they
contact the epithelial basement membrane.<ref name="cold-taylor1999">{{REFjournal
|last=Cold
|first=C.J.
|author-link=
|last2=Taylor
|first2=J.R.
|author2-link=John R. Taylor
|title=The prepuce
|journal=BJU Int
|date=1999-01-01
|volume=83 Suppl 1
|issue=
|pages=34-44
|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1046/j.1464-410x.1999.0830s1034.x
|quote=
|pubmedID=1034941
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=10.1046/j.1464-410x.1999.0830s1034.x
|accessdate=2020-10-25
}}</ref>
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