The vibrissae of certain mammals

✍ Scribed by Messenger, J. Franklin

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1900
• Weight: 488 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0092-7317
• DOI: 10.1002/cne.910100404

✦ Synopsis

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The lower mammals, in contrast to man, are endowed with a peculiar class of sensory organs developed upon certain modified hairs, the vibrissz. While these share with the ordinary hairs a tactile function, they differ from the hairs of the general surface not merely by having this common function intensified; but there is a fundamental difference in the way in which the accommodation to that function is accomplished.