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lamellated corpuscles (medicine) and genetrix (iou)


lamellated corpuscles (medicine)


lamellated 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.


genetrix (iou)



genetrix noun. . LME.
[Old French genitris or Latin genetrix, -itrix fem. of GENITOR noun2: see -TRIX.]
A female parent, a mother.