END ORGAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does end organ mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• END ORGAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "end organ"):

end-plate; endplate; motor end plate (the flattened end of a motor neuron that transmits neural impulses to a muscle)

osmoreceptor (sensory end organ that responds to changes in osmotic pressure)

 Context examples 

The administration of a drug directly into the tympanic cavity has high safety profile and allows delivering high concentrations of the agent to the inner ear end organ.

(Intratympanic Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

A question about whether an individual has or had end organ damage as a result of diabetes.

(Has End Organ Damage from Diabetes, NCI Thesaurus)

By blocking the production of uric acid, this agent decreases serum and urine concentrations of uric acid, thereby providing protection against uric acid-mediated end organ damage in conditions associated with excessive production of uric acid, i.e. the massive cell lysis associated with the treatment of some malignancies.

(Allopurinol, NCI Thesaurus)