See Also: bulbocavernosus(medicine)
bulbocavernosus muscle(medicine)
bulbocavernosus reflex(medicine)
musculus bulbocavernosus(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Schwalbe's corpuscle(medicine)
Schwalbe's nucleus(medicine)
Schwalbe's spaces(medicine)
Schwalbe, Gustav(medicine)
Schwalbe's ring(medicine)

Schwalbe's corpuscle (medicine) and bulbocavernosus (medicine)


Schwalbe's corpuscle (medicine)


Schwalbe's corpuscle -->
taste bud


One of a number of flask-shaped cell nests located in the epithelium of vallate, fungiform, and foliate papillae of the tongue and also in the soft palate, epiglottis, and posterior wall of the pharynx; it consists of sustentacular, gustatory, and basal cells between which the intragemmal sensory nerve fibres terminate.

Synonym: caliculus gustatorius, gustatory bud, Schwalbe's corpuscle, taste bulb, taste corpuscle.


bulbocavernosus (medicine)


bulbocavernosus


See: musculus bulbocavernosus.