- tactile end organ
- (Neur, Anat) taktiles Endorgan n, taktiler Endapparat m, Tastsinnkörperchen n, Meissnersches Tastkörperchen n, Corpusculum n tactum
Fachwörterbuch Medizin Englisch-Deutsch. 2013.
tactile end organ
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