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end-organ

end-organ is the alternative form of end organ.

Meaning of end organ

Noun

end organ (plural end organs)

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

pluralend-organs

Questions about end-organ

What is end-organ the alternative form of?
End-organ is the alternative form of end organ.

Words near end-organ in the dictionary

  1. end-of-pier
  2. end-of-the-pier
  3. end-of-the-world
  4. end-on
  5. end-on-end
  6. end-organ
  7. end-organs
  8. End-Permian Extinction
  9. end-product
  10. end-products
  11. end-rhyme

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Adapted from Wiktionary: end-organ (page history and authors); end organ (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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