1) It lets you feel 2) Receptor in the skin 
(from the article `automata theory`) ...automata theory lying within the area of pure mathematical study is often based on a model of a portion of the nervous system in a living creature ... The nerve terminal contains many small vesicles (membrane-enclosed structures) about 50 nm in diameter, each of which contains 5,000–10,000 mo...
Synonym for synapse ... <physiology> A connection between excitable cells, by which an excitation is conveyed from one to the other. ... 1. Chemical synapse: one in which an action potential causes the exocytosis of neurotransmitter from the presynaptic cell, which diffuses across the synaptic cleft and binds to ligand gated ion channels on t...
See synapse.
Type: Term Definitions: 1. any one of the specialized terminations of peripheral sensory or motor nerve fibers. See: motor endplate, corpuscle, bulb
[n] - the terminal structure of an axon that does not end at a synapse
nerve end noun the terminal structure of an axon that does not end at a synapse