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the fourth ventricle. These are known 

 as the foramina of Ke}-- and Retzius. 



Kobelt, George L. — A German physician, 

 born 1804; died 1857. Kobelt's tubes — 

 the blind tubes of the parovarium, — are 

 named for him. 



KoUiker, Rudolf Albert von. — A Swiss anat- 

 omist born in Ziirich in 1817. Still liv- 

 ing. The neuroglia immediately sur- 

 rounding the epithelium of the central 

 canal of the spinal cord is named after 

 him, — central grey nucleus of Kolliker. 

 He was professor of anatomy at Wiirz- 

 burg. 



Koyter, Volcherus (also written Colter). — 

 A Dutch anatomist, born 1534; died 

 1600. He served a time as a military 

 surgeon, and finally settled in Nurem- 

 berg. Baas says he was the first to 

 describe two anterior and two posterior 

 nerve-roots. The corrugator supercilii 

 was first described by this anatomist, and 

 has been named for him, — musculus 

 Coiteri. 



Krause, Wilhelm — A German anatomist, 

 born 1833. The spherical, or ovoid, cor- 

 puscles occurring at the ends of the 

 nerve tubules that emerge from a nerve 

 plexus are named Krause's corpuscles, 

 after this anatomist. 



Kiihne, Willy. — A German phA'sician, born 

 1S37 ; died 1900. He was the first to 

 describe accurately the motorial end- 

 plates of nerves in muscle fibre. He 

 was a professor at Heidelberg. 



Lancisi, Giovanni Maria. — An Italian 

 physician, born in Rome, 1654; died 



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