d)c ^orlU*6 3liiatomifiitfi 



of Pavia. The striatum lucidum, one 

 of the epidermal layers, is known as 

 Oehl's layer. 



Oken.Lorenz.— A German physiologist and 

 physician, born at Bohlsbach, in Baden, 

 in 1779; died at Zurich, 1851. He was 

 a professor in Zurich. The corpus 

 Okense, the same as the Wolffian body 

 {q. v.), is named for him. 



Pacchioni, Antonio. — An Italian anatomist, 

 born at Reggio in 1665 ; died in Rome 

 in 1726. The Pacchionian glands are 

 named for this anatomist. 



Pacini, Filippo.— An Italian anatomist, 

 born in Pistoja in 1812; died in Flor- 

 ence in 1883. He was the first to de- 

 scribe minutely the Pacinian corpuscles, 

 or the end-bulbs of certain nerves. 

 They are sometimes known as Vater's 

 corpuscles. (SeeVater). 



Pansch, Adolf.— A German anatomist, born 

 1841 ; died 1887. A fissure between the 

 parietal lobules of the cerebrum, begin- 

 ning near the ventral end of the central 

 fissure, and running to near the tip of 

 the occipital lobe including the parietal 

 and paroccipital fissure, is termed the 

 fissure of Pansch. This is also some- 

 times known as fissure of Pansch and 

 Dallon. 



Pander, Heinrich Christian von.— A Ger- 

 man anatomist, born at Riga in 1794; 

 died at St. Petersburg, 1865. A brown- 

 colored, lentil-shaped mass of gray 

 nerve substance, lying between the 

 nucleus tegumenti and the corresponding 

 corpus albicans beneath the optic thalam- 



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