Pacini
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Pacini may refer to the following persons:
It may also refer to:
- Filippo PaciniFilippo PaciniFilippo Pacini was an Italian anatomist, posthumously famous for isolating the cholera bacillus Vibrio cholerae in 1854, well before Robert Koch's more widely accepted discoveries thirty years later....
, an Italian anatomist - Roberto PaciniRoberto PaciniRoberto Pacini is an Italian director, author and theatre and film producer.-Biography:He lives and works in Rome. In 1987, he attended the Bottega Teatrale di Firenze directed by Vittorio Gassman...
, an Italian director, author and theatre and film producer - Alfredo PaciniAlfredo PaciniAlfredo Pacini was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Nuncio to Switzerland from 1960 to 1967, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1967.- Biography :...
, an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church - Giovanni PaciniGiovanni PaciniGiovanni Pacini was an Italian composer, best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas...
, an Italian composer
It may also refer to:
- Pacinian corpusclePacinian corpuscleLamellar corpuscles or Pacinian corpuscles are one of the four major types of mechanoreceptor. They are nerve endings in the skin, responsible for sensitivity to vibration and pressure. Vibrational role may be used to detect surface, e.g., rough vs...
, mechanoreceptor responsible for sensitivity to deep pressure touch and high frequency vibration