| Vater-Pacini corpuscles | Small oval bodies in the skin of the fingers, in the mesentery, tendons, and elsewhere, formed of concentric layers of connective tissue with a soft core in which the axon of a nerve fibre runs, splitting up into a number of fibrils that terminate in bulbous enlargements; they are sensitive to pressure. Synonym: corpuscula lamellosa, pacinian corpuscles, Vater's corpuscles, Vater-Pacini corpuscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Vater's corpuscles | Small oval bodies in the skin of the fingers, in the mesentery, tendons, and elsewhere, formed of concentric layers of connective tissue with a soft core in which the axon of a nerve fibre runs, splitting up into a number of fibrils that terminate in bulbous enlargements; they are sensitive to pressure. Synonym: corpuscula lamellosa, pacinian corpuscles, Vater's corpuscles, Vater-Pacini corpuscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| malpighian corpuscles | The tuft of glomerular capillaries and the capsula glomeruli that encloses it. Synonym: corpusculum renis, malpighian corpuscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| genital corpuscles | Special encapsulated nerve endings found in the skin of the genitalia and nipple. Synonym: corpuscula genitalia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| red corpuscles | Red corpuscles are cells that carry oxygen in the blood. They are also called red blood cells or rbcs. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Virchow's corpuscles | Connective tissue cells found between the laminae of fibrous tissue in the cornea. Synonym: Toynbee's corpuscles, Virchow's cells, Virchow's corpuscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gluge's corpuscles | Large pus cells containing fat droplets. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ruffini's corpuscles | Sensory end-structures in the subcutaneous connective tissues of the fingers, consisting of an ovoid capsule within which the sensory fibre ends with numerous collateral knobs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| corneal corpuscles | Connective tissue cells found between the laminae of fibrous tissue in the cornea. Synonym: Toynbee's corpuscles, Virchow's cells, Virchow's corpuscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Herbst's corpuscles | Tactile corpuscle's, resembling pacinian corpuscle's, but much smaller; found in birds. (05 Mar 2000) |
| splenic corpuscles | Small nodular masses of lymphoid tissue attached to the sides of the smaller arterial branches. Synonym: folliculi lymphatici lienales, malpighian bodies, malpighian corpuscles, malpighian glands, malpighian nodules, splenic corpuscles, splenic lymph nodules. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Negri corpuscles | Eosinophilic, sharply outlined, pathognomonic inclusion body's (2 to 10 um in diameter) found in the cytoplasm of certain nerve cells containing the virus of rabies, especially in Ammon's horn of the hippocampus. Synonym: Negri corpuscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Norris' corpuscles | Decolorised red blood cells that are invisible or almost invisible in the blood plasma, unless they are appropriately stained. (05 Mar 2000) |
| terminal nerve corpuscles | Generic term denoting specialised encapsulated nerve endings such as the articular, bulboid, genital, lamellated, and tactile corpuscles, and the tactile meniscus. Synonym: corpuscula nervosa terminalia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Eichhorst's corpuscles | The globular forms sometimes occurring in the poikilocytosis of pernicious anaemia. (05 Mar 2000) |