end organ

1. 1.

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

   Broaderorgan

   Narrowerend-plateosmoreceptor

Questions about end organ

What does end organ mean?

end organ means "a specialized structure at the peripheral end of some motor or sensory nerve fibers".

Is end organ a common word?

end organ is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.