| 释义 |
The term end organ or end-organ has two meanings in medicine: - A small organ at the terminal end of a nerve conduction pathway
- Bulbous corpuscle (Ruffini corpuscle end-organ)
- Tactile corpuscle (Meissner corpuscle end-organ)
- Merkel nerve ending (Merkel corpuscle end-organ)
- Neuromuscular junction (motor end-organ)
- Lamellar corpuscle (Pacinian corpuscle end-organ)
- 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)
- End organ damage, disease of such organs
- Ambulatory blood pressure § Target organ damage
- Sepsis § End-organ dysfunction
- HFE hereditary haemochromatosis § End-organ damage
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