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END ORGAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A specialized structure at the peripheral end of some motor or sensory nerve fibers
Classified under:
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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