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end bulb

–noun Anatomy.
any of various types of oval or rounded structures occurring at the ends of nerve fibers, ranging from slight enlargements to complex corpuscles that act as sensory receptors for pain, touch, cold, etc.
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Main Entry: end bulb
Function: noun
: a bulbous termination of a sensory nerve fiber (as in the skin or in a mucous membrane) —compare KRAUSE'S CORPUSCLE
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end bulb n.
One of the oval or rounded bodies in which a sensory nerve fiber terminates.

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Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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