| Mazzoni corpuscle | A tactile corpuscle apparently identical with Krause's end bulb. See: Golgi-Mazzoni corpuscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Mazzoni, Vittorio | <person> Italian physician, 1880-1940. See: Mazzoni corpuscle, Golgi-Mazzoni corpuscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Golgi-Mazzoni corpuscle | <cell biology> An encapsulated sensory nerve ending similar to a pacinian corpuscle but simpler in structure. Tactile corpuscles found in the subcutaneous tissue of the fingertips, resembling pacinian corpuscles, but possessing fewer lamellae and a relatively larger cone, and having the contained fibres more extensively branched. (12 Mar 2000) |
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