n :  any of the thick argyrophilic fibers in the developing tooth that arise from the dental papilla, pass between the cells of the odontoblast layer, and form the matrix of the dentin - called also von Korff fiber 
 
Korff, Karl von, 20th-century German anatomist and histologist.
 
 
 
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