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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> | |||
</blockquote> | |||