Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

end organ

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.13 in modern English

Syllables
end or-gan
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A small organ at the terminal end of a nerve conduction pathway.

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).

Inflected Forms

end organs (plural) end-organ (alternative)

Questions

What does end organ mean?
A small organ at the terminal end of a nerve conduction pathway.

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