organule

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

organ +‎ -ule

Noun[edit]

organule (plural organules)

  1. (anatomy, dated) One of the essential cells or elements of an organ.
    • 1866, Thomas Henry Huxley, Lessons in Elementary Physiology:
      The physical agent must act first on the sense-organules, and these in turn act upon the filaments of the nerve

References[edit]

“organule”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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