Bulboid corpuscle

Bulboid corpuscle
Bulboid corpuscle
	End-bulb of Krause.
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Identifiers
Latin	corpuscula bulboideum
FMA	83603
	Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

The bulboid corpuscles (end-bulbs of Krause, Krause corpuscles) are cutaneous receptors in humans and other animals.

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

^ synd/2425 at Who Named It?
^ 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]}