TARGET ORGAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does target organ mean? 

• TARGET ORGAN (noun)
  The noun TARGET ORGAN has 1 sense:

1. (radiology) organ intended to receive the therapeutic dose of a radioactive substance

  Familiarity information: TARGET ORGAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TARGET ORGAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(radiology) organ intended to receive the therapeutic dose of a radioactive substance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("target organ" is a kind of...):

organ (a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function)

Domain category:

radiology (the branch of medical science dealing with the medical use of X-rays or other penetrating radiation)

 Context examples 

This is a measurement that quantifies the maximum concentration of an experimental substance or drug in the plasma or a target organ after dose administration.

(Cmax, NCI Thesaurus)

They synapse in cranial autonomic ganglia or in terminal ganglia near target organs.

(Parasympathetic nervous system, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The target organ receives only the fraction of drug corresponding to the fraction of received arterial blood.

(Intravenous infusion, NCI Thesaurus)

In the autonomic ganglia, the preganglionic fibers from the central nervous system synapse onto the neurons whose axons are the postganglionic fibers innervating target organs.

(Autonomic Ganglion, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)