<P> With the above - mentioned receptor types the skin can sense the modalities touch, pressure, vibration, temperature and pain . The modalities and their receptors are partly overlapping, and are innervated by different kinds of fiber types . </P> <Table> Cutaneous receptors <Tr> <Th> Modality </Th> <Th> Type </Th> <Th> Fiber type </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Touch </Th> <Td> Rapidly adapting cutaneous mechanoreceptors (Meissner corpuscle end - organs Pacinian corpuscle end - organs hair follicle receptors some free nerve endings) </Td> <Td> Aβ fibers </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Touch & pressure </Th> <Td> Slowly adapting cutaneous mechanoreceptors (Merkel and Ruffini corpuscle end - organs some free nerve endings) </Td> <Td> Aβ fibers (Merkel and Ruffini's), Aδ fibers (free nerve endings) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Vibration </Th> <Td> Meissners and Pacinian corpuscle end - organs </Td> <Td> Aβ fibers </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Temperature </Th> <Td> Thermoreceptors </Td> <Td> Aδ fibers (cold receptors) C fibers (warmth receptors) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Pain & Itch </Th> <Td> Free nerve ending nociceptors </Td> <Td> Aδ fibers (Nociceptors of neospinothalamic tract) C fibers (Nociceptors of paleospinothalamic tract) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> Modality </Th> <Th> Type </Th> <Th> Fiber type </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Touch </Th> <Td> Rapidly adapting cutaneous mechanoreceptors (Meissner corpuscle end - organs Pacinian corpuscle end - organs hair follicle receptors some free nerve endings) </Td> <Td> Aβ fibers </Td> </Tr>

Type of pain fiber found on deep body organs