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endorgan

endorgan 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 endorgan

pluralendorgans

Questions about endorgan

What is endorgan the alternative form of?
Endorgan is the alternative form of end organ.

Words near endorgan in the dictionary

  1. endoresections
  2. endorestriction
  3. endoreticular
  4. endoretroviral
  5. endoreversible
  6. endorgan
  7. endorgans
  8. endorhamnosidase
  9. endorhamnosidases
  10. endorheic
  11. endorheism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: endorgan (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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