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afferent
[ af-er-uhnt ]
noun
- a nerve carrying a message toward the central nervous system.
afferent
/ ăf′ər-ənt /
- Carrying sensory information toward a central organ or part, as a nerve that conducts impulses from the periphery of the body to the central nervous system.
- Compare efferent
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- affer·ent·ly adverb
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Origin of afferent1
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Hence one of the goals to which each afferent fibre from a receptive organ leads is a number of motor nerves.
The spinal cord is like an upturned tree, with man's hair as its roots, and afferent and efferent nerves as branches.
Dissect along the truncus arteriosus to afferent branchials.
There are two divisions of nerves, the afferent and efferent.
From the gills the afferent branchials carry the blood to the median dorsal aorta.
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