Table 1.

Data on case materials and density of Ruffini's corpuscles in human glabrous digital skin

Gender

Males: 157 (77%); Females: 47 (23%)

Age: 19–92 years

10–20: 2 (1%); 21–40: 65 (32%); 41–60: 101 (50%); 61–80: 33 (16%); 80–100: 3 (1%)

Number of samples: 186

F1: 70 (37.5%); F2: 85 (45.5%); F3: 21 (11.5%); F4: 3 (2.5%); F5: 7 (3.5%)

Number of fields: 1860 (372 sections)*

F1: 350 (1400 mm2); F2: 425 (1700 mm2); F3: 105 (420 mm2); F4: 15 (60 mm2); F5: 35 (140 mm2)

Number of Ruffini's corpuscles: 461

F1: 113 (24.5%); F2: 256 (55.5%); F3: 74 (16%); F4: 16 (3.5%); F5: 2 (0.5%)

Number of Ruffini's corpuscles per mm2:

F1: 0.08; F2: 0.15; F3: 0.17; F4: 0.26; F5: 0.01

F, finger.