A specific organ on which a hormone, drug, or other substance acts.
〔生理，医〕靶器官，目标器官
Example sentencesExamples
The progestin component provides competitive antagonism to androgen at its receptors, reducing the action of testosterone at the target organ.
The advantage of using these circulating blood cells for investigating the receptor status in human and animals is that they are more easily accessible than cells of primary insulin target organs, such as adipocytes and muscles.
When an organ or tissue is under investigation a radioactive tracer can be injected into the patient and allowed to get to the target organ.
The dose of a poison a person is exposed to is not equivalent to the amount that enters the body, but rather the amount that reaches the target organ.
Arterial disease assessment, prevention, and treatment clinics provide a common strategy for all patients with cardiovascular disease regardless of target organ affected
Definition of target organ in US English:
target organ
noun
Medicine Physiology
A specific organ on which a hormone, drug, or other substance acts.
〔生理，医〕靶器官，目标器官
Example sentencesExamples
The dose of a poison a person is exposed to is not equivalent to the amount that enters the body, but rather the amount that reaches the target organ.
The advantage of using these circulating blood cells for investigating the receptor status in human and animals is that they are more easily accessible than cells of primary insulin target organs, such as adipocytes and muscles.
Arterial disease assessment, prevention, and treatment clinics provide a common strategy for all patients with cardiovascular disease regardless of target organ affected
When an organ or tissue is under investigation a radioactive tracer can be injected into the patient and allowed to get to the target organ.
The progestin component provides competitive antagonism to androgen at its receptors, reducing the action of testosterone at the target organ.