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Pain receptors are usually free nerve endings and are receptors to chemical, mechanical and thermal pain sensation usually found in the skin, internal and joint surfaces.
FETAL DEVELOPMENT Fetal skin contains free nerve endings (the alarm buttons) responsible for initial registration of noxious stimulation, from about seven weeks' gestation.
Free nerve endings and encapsulated mechanoreceptors (Ruffini's and Vater-Pacini corpuscles) have been identified in this tissue leading to suggestions that the thoracolumbar fascia may play a neurosensory role (Yahia et al.
 
 
 
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