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Magnate
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It depends--
--on which fibers are preferentially affected; there are subcategories even within the smaller fibers.
Most actual mechanical touch receptors, though, are thinly myelinated fibers, not unmeylinated "small" fibers, which generally subsume the sensations of pain and temperature.
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