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end organ

noun

Definitions

  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…

    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).

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