external organ

1. 1.

   an organ that is situated on or near the surface of the body

   Broaderorgan

   Narrowerexternal earprecordium

Questions about external organ

What does external organ mean?

external organ means "an organ that is situated on or near the surface of the body".

Is external organ a common word?

external organ is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.