BODY PARTS NAMED AFTER ITALIANS

 

RUFFINI’S CORPUSCLES

Sensory nerve-endings that respond to warmth. Named after Angelo Ruffini (1864—1929), who used gold chloride to stain microscope slides of anatomical specimens, thus revealing the tiny and sensitive corpuscles. Ruffini began his career as a country doctor but ended it as a professor at the University of Bologna. His major researches were into the embryology of birds and amphibians.