Definition of End organ

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

Generic synonyms: Organ
Specialized synonyms: End-plate, Endplate, Motor End Plate, Osmoreceptor

Medical Definition of End organ

1. The special structure containing the terminal of a nerve fibre in peripheral tissue such as muscle, tissue, skin, mucous membrane, or glands. See: ending. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of End Organ

end laps
end line
end man
end mark
end marks
end matter
end of
end of day
end of quote
end of story
end of terrace
end of the line
end of the road
end of the world
end on
end organ (current term)
end oxidation
end pieces
end plate
end plate potential
end point
end product
end product inhibition
end product repression
end quote
end rhyme
end rhymes
end run
end stage

Literary usage of End organ

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

1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"End-organ : G er. ... Even in the case of motor and other efferent nerves the peripheral end-organ seems to exert some sort of reactionary influence. ..."

2. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"This result is usually attributed to fatigue of the sense cells in the end-organ and it is noticeable chiefly with faint odors. ..."

3. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"End-organ : G er. ... Even in the case of motor and other efferent nerves the peripheral end-organ seems to exert some sort of reactionary influence. ..."

4. Psychology: A Study of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth (1921)
"Several kinds of sensory end-organ are found in the skin. There is the " spherical end-bulb", into which a sensory axon penetrates; it is believed to be the ..."

5. Psychology by Burtis Burr Breese (1917)
"CHAPTER VI OLFACTORY AND GUSTATORY SENSATIONS OLFACTORY SENSATIONS End-Organ.—The sensitive area, regio olfactoria, for the sense of smell is located in the ..."

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