FREE NERVE ENDING
Dictionary entry overview: What does free nerve ending mean? • FREE NERVE ENDING (noun)
The noun FREE NERVE ENDING has 1 sense:
1. microscopic sensory nerve endings in the skin that are not connected to any specific sensory receptor
Familiarity information: FREE NERVE ENDING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• FREE NERVE ENDING (noun)
Meaning:
Microscopic sensory nerve endings in the skin that are not connected to any specific sensory receptor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("free nerve ending" is a kind of...):
nerve end; nerve ending (the terminal structure of an axon that does not end at a synapse)
Holonyms ("free nerve ending" is a part of...):
cutis; skin; tegument (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)
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