end organ (English, noun)
expansion: end organ (plural end organs)
Senses:
glosses: A small organ at the terminal end of a nerve conduction pathway.
glosses: 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).
Forms:
form: end organs
tags: plural
form: end-organ
tags: alternative