end organ

English Thesaurus

1. a specialized structure at the peripheral end of some motor or sensory nerve fibers (noun.body)

hypernym	:	organ,
definition	:	a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function (noun.body)

hyponym	:	end-plate, endplate, motor end plate,
definition	:	the flattened end of a motor neuron that transmits neural impulses to a muscle (noun.body)

hyponym	:	osmoreceptor,
definition	:	sensory end organ that responds to changes in osmotic pressure (noun.body)