end plate

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The area of synaptic contact between a motor nerve and a muscle fiber.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

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

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Anat.) one of the flat expansions in which motor nerve fibers terminate on muscular fibers.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the flattened end of a motor neuron that transmits neural impulses to a muscle
2. n. the flattened end of a motor neuron that transmits neural impulses to a muscle