| Kuhne | Wilhelm (Willy) F., German physiologist and histologist, 1837-1900. See: Kuhne's fibre, Kuhne's methylene blue, Kuhne's phenomenon, Kuhne's plate, Kuhne's spindle. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Kuhne's fibre | Artificial muscle fibre made by filling the intestine of an insect with a growth of myxomycetes; used to demonstrate the contractility of protoplasm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kuhne's methylene blue | Methylene blue in absolute alcohol and phenol solution. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kuhne's phenomenon | When a constant current is passed through a muscle, an undulation is seen to pass from the positive to the negative pole. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kuhne's plate | The endplate of a motor nerve fibre in a muscle spindle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kuhne's spindle | A fusiform end organ in skeletal muscle in which afferent and a few efferent nerve fibres terminate; it contains from 3 to 10 striated muscle fibres (intrafusal fibres) that are much smaller than the ordinary muscle fibres, are separated from them by a capsule that encloses the organ, and are innervated by the thin axon of a gamma motoneuron (gamma motor fibre); the sensory endings that occur on the intrafusal fibres are either annulospiral or flower spray endings; this sensory end organ is particularly sensitive to passive stretch of the muscle in which it is enclosed. Synonym: Kuhne's spindle, muscle spindle. (05 Mar 2000) |