AFFERENT
\ˈafɹənt], \ˈafɹənt], \ˈa_f_ɹ_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of AFFERENT
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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(physiology) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS; "afferent nerves"; "afferent impulses"
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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Nerves carrying impulses to the nervous centres; blood-vessels carrying blood to any particular organ or set of organs.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Conveying inwards, as from the periphery to the centre. The vessels which convey the lymph or chyle to the lymphatio glands, are called afferent, vasa afferen'tia seu inferen'tia. Also, nerves that convey impressions towards the nervous centres-nervi entobcenon'tes.
By Robley Dunglison
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