organule
English
Etymology
organ + -ule
Noun
organule (plural organules)
- (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
- 1866, Thomas Henry Huxley, Lessons in Elementary Physiology
References
organule in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913