end plate

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The area of synaptic contact between a motor nerve and a muscle fiber.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In anatomy, the expanded termination of a motor nerve in a muscular fiber under the sarcolemma.

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• noun the flattened end of a motor neuron that transmits neural impulses to a muscle
• noun the flattened end of a motor neuron that transmits neural impulses to a muscle