barrel organ |
a portable musical instrument consisting of a cylinder fitted with pegs or pins that either open valves to a series of pipes or strike metal tongues when the cylinder is rotated; hand organ. |
electronic organ |
a musical instrument that resembles a pipe organ in its keyboard and stops, but produces music electronically rather than through pipes. |
end organ |
any specialized receptor at the end of a sensory or motor nerve fiber. |
hand organ |
a portable barrel organ that is played by turning a crank by hand. |
house organ |
a publication put out periodically by a business or other organization for its employees, customers, or the like. |
mouth organ |
another name for harmonica. |
organ donor |
one who agrees to have a bodily organ or organs removed, either before or after death, to be used in organ transplant or for medical research. |
organ grinder |
a person who plays a hand organ or hurdy-gurdy on the streets to earn money. |
pipe organ |
see "organ." |
reed organ |
an organ in which the sound is produced by a set of free, vibrating metal reeds instead of pipes. |
sense organ |
a part of the body that takes in information and sends it to the brain. The eyes and the taste buds are sense organs. |