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Afferent   /ˈæfərənt/   Listen
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Afferent  adj.  (Physiol.) Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the external organs to the brain.






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... sentient surface (1) an afferent impulse passes along (2) to the posterior root of the spinal cord, the nerve fibers of the posterior root ending in minute filaments among the small cells of this part of the cord (3). In some unknown way this impulse passes across the gray part of the cord to the large cells ...
— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell



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