Krause's corpuscle

Krause's corpuscle
/krow"siz/, Anat.
any of numerous encapsulated nerve endings occurring in the skin and mucous membranes, functioning as sensory cold receptors.
[after Wilhelm Krause (1833-1909), German anatomist, who described them in 1860]

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