FREE NERVE ENDING

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Meaning:

Microscopic sensory nerve endings in the skin that are not connected to any specific sensory receptor

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("free nerve ending" is a kind of...):

nerve end; nerve ending (the terminal structure of an axon that does not end at a synapse)

Holonyms ("free nerve ending" is a part of...):

cutis; skin; tegument (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)