End organ

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

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title End organ.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.