nerve ending

Questions about nerve ending

What does nerve ending mean?

nerve ending means "the terminal structure of an axon that does not end at a synapse".

What is another word for nerve ending?

Close synonyms include nerve end. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nerve ending a common word?

nerve ending 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.