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annulospiral organ (medicine)


annulospiral organ -->
annulospiral ending


One of two types of sensory nerve ending associated with a neuromuscular spindle (the other being the flower-spray ending); after entering the muscle spindle, the fibre divides into two flat ribbon-like branches that wind themselves in rings or spirals about the intrafusal muscle fibres.

Synonym: annulospiral organ.