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end organ

noun

, Cell Biology.
  1. one of several specialized structures at the peripheral end of sensory or motor nerve fibers.


end organ

noun

  1. anatomy the expanded end of a peripheral motor or sensory nerve
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of end organ1

First recorded in 1875–80
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Example Sentences

The equivalent of that nerve— the most direct route to its end organ—is to go south of the equivalent of the artery.

There is the hair end-organ, consisting of a sensory axon coiled about the root of the hair; this, also, is a touch receptor.

We learn that the individual may be either a communicating cell or a terminal cell, otherwise known as an end organ.

The lookout man at sea, on the other hand, is invariably an end organ.

It would sound more accurate if one could say "demanding some end-organ different from those which we know that we possess."

This method is an end-organ anesthesia, and the solutions employed are strong and act because of their drug content.

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