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Definition of Electric organ

1. Noun. (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ.

Definition of Electric organ

1. Noun. (anatomy) An effector organ found in some fish (especially electric eels and electric catfish), that can produce a voltage large enough to aid in predation. ¹

2. Noun. (musical instruments) electronic organ. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Electric organ

1. In about 250 species of electric fishes, modified muscle fibres forming disklike multinucleate plates arranged in stacks like batteries in series and embedded in a gelatinous matrix. A large torpedo ray may have half a million plates. Muscles in different parts of the body may be modified, i.e., the trunk and tail in the electric eel, the hyobranchial apparatus in the electric ray, and extrinsic eye muscles in the stargazers. Powerful electric organs emit pulses in brief bursts several times a second. They serve to stun prey and ward off predators. A large torpedo ray can produce of shock of more than 200 volts, capable of stunning a human. (storer et al., general zoology, 6th ed, p672) (12 Dec 1998)

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Literary usage of Electric organ

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1893)
"It soon became evident that in sections from the middle of the tail on a level with the electric organ certain cells of the anterior horn of the cord were ..."

2. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"Ou the right the surface only of the electric organ (OE) is shown, on the left the nerves passing to the organ are shown. The roof of the skull is removed ..."

3. Darwin and After Darwin: An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a by George John Romanes, Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1892)
"electric organ of the Skate. The left-hand drawing (I) represents the entire organ (natural size) of a full-grown /?. rad,'ata. This is a small skate, ..."

4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... situation of electric organ (black atrip); b, structure of the same, enlarged; c, cross-section of eel's body, showing relative size and position of ..."

5. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"1 embryonic beginnings of the electric organ have the greatest resemblance to embryonic ... When the electric organ is further developed, there U seen, ..."

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