Bulboid corpuscle

Bulboid corpuscle
End-bulb of Krause.
Details
Identifiers
Latincorpuscula bulboideum
FMA83603
Anatomical terminology

The bulboid corpuscles (end-bulbs of Krause, Krause corpuscles) are cutaneous receptors in the human body and that of other animals.

The end-bulbs of Krause were named after the German anatomist Wilhelm Krause (1833–1910).[1][2]

  1. ^ synd/2425 at Who Named It?
  2. ^ Krause, W. (1860). Die terminalen Körperchen der einfach sensiblen Nerven [The terminal corpuscles of the simple sensory nerves] (in German). Hannover. OCLC 488510746, 14844647, 224361622.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)[page needed]