On average, there are 224 sunny days per year in Guadalupe County, Texas. The July high is around 94 degrees. The January low is 40. Sperling's comfort index for Guadalupe County is a 68 out of 100, where a higher score indicates a more comfortable year-around climate. The US average for the comfort index is 54.
Merkels tactile disk. A single sensory nerve ending characterized by a terminal cuplike, expanded tip that is in contact with the base of a single specialized epithelial cell in the epidermis. It functions by receiving touch, pressure, and texture, and relaying the information to the brain.
Merkel cell were first identified by German anatomist Friedrich Sigmund Merkel in 1875 who, by using an osmium fixation and a silver staining, described them in the epidermal basal layer as large cells paler than keratinocytes and in close contact with enlarged terminal branches of myelinated afferent nerve fibers.