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Afferent   /ˈæfərənt/   Listen
Afferent

noun
1.
A nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system.  Synonyms: afferent nerve, sensory nerve.



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"Afferent" Quotes from Famous Books



... the gradual transition from the deliberate motor reaction, which occurs only after complex and varied central neural activities, and the purely reflex reaction, which takes place as soon as the efferent impulse can cause changes in the spinal centers and be transmitted as an afferent impulse ...
— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various
... 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 of ...
— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell


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


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