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noun
A small organ at the terminal end of a nerve conduction pathway.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The ultimately affected organ in a chain of events, such as a disease process (pathophysiology) or a drug's mechanism of action (sometimes called a target organ in this sense).
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noun
a specialized structure at the peripheral end of some motor or sensory nerve fibers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: organ
Narrower terms: end-plate, endplate, motor end plate, osmoreceptor
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