- Krause end-bulb
- a type of small, spherical, encapsulated nerve ending found particularly in the dermis, lips, mouth, and conjunctiva; thought to function as a rapidly adapting mechanoreceptor.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
Krause end-bulb
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Krause end-bulb — Krau·se end bulb (krouґzə) [Wilhelm Johann Friedrich Krause, German anatomist, 1833–1910] see under end bulb … Medical dictionary
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