END ORGAN

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A specialized structure at the peripheral end of some motor or sensory nerve fibers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("end organ" is a kind of...):

organ (a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "end organ"):

end-plate; endplate; motor end plate (the flattened end of a motor neuron that transmits neural impulses to a muscle)

osmoreceptor (sensory end organ that responds to changes in osmotic pressure)

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