100 



THE ESSENTIALS OF HISTOLOGY. 



nucleated cells. As the nerve-fibre enters the corpuscle (which in the 

 tactile corpuscle only happens after it has reached the distal part of the 



FIG. 117. CYLINDRICAL 



END-BULB FROM THE 

 CONJUNCTIVA OP THE 



CALF. (Merkel. ) 



FIG. 118. END-BULB FROM THE HUMAN 

 CONJUNCTIVA. (Longworth.) 



a, nucleated capsule ; b, core, the outlines of 

 its cells are not seen ; c, entering fibre- 

 branching. and its two divisions passing to 

 terminate in the core at d. 



corpuscle, having wound spirally once or twice round it) it loses its 

 sheaths and is prolonged as an axis-cylinder only, which terminates 



FIG. 119. END- 

 BULB FROM THE 

 HUMAN CONJUNC- 

 TIVA, TREATED 

 WITH ACETIC ACID 

 AND OSMIC ACID. 



Ao. (W. Krause) 



FIG. 121. COMPOUND 



END-BULB FROM THE 

 CLITORIS, HUMAN. 



(W. Krause.) 



FIG. 120. ARTICULAR CORPUSCLE, 

 HUMAN. . (W. Krause.) 



after either a straight or a convoluted course within the organ (see 

 figs. 115 to 118). Tactile corpuscles occur in some of the papillae of 

 the skin of the hand and foot, in sections of which they will be 



