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Afferent   /ˈæfərənt/   Listen
Afferent

adjective
1.
Of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS.  "Afferent impulses"



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"Afferent" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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



Words linked to "Afferent" :   sensory fiber, dorsal root, lemniscus, sensory, sensory neuron, dorsal horn, corticipetal, receptive, nerve, nervus, efferent, centripetal, fillet, physiology



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