“krause's”

The following 3 entries include the term krause's.

Krause's corpuscle

noun

: any of various rounded sensory end organs occurring in mucous membranes (as of the conjunctiva or genitals)

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Krause's end-bulb

noun

: krause's corpuscle

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Krause's membrane

noun

: one of the isotropic cross bands in a striated muscle fiber that consists of disks of sarcoplasm linking the individual fibrils

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