end organ
See also: end-organ
English
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Noun
end organ (plural end organs)
- A small organ at the terminal end of a nerve conduction pathway.
- 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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