end organ

/EH1 N D AO1 R G AH0 N/

noun

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).

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