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adj. Carrying inward to a central organ or section, as nerves that conduct impulses from the periphery of the body to the brain or spinal cord.

adj. Carrying towards.

n. An afferent structure or connection

adj. Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent

Bringing; carrying to or toward; conveying inward.

adj. of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS

n. a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system

"Thus: a given inhibitory tetanus exerted on a certain set of motoneurones fails to prevent their excitation in response to strong stimulation of a given afferent nerve; but when the stimulation of the excitatory afferent is weaker the given standard inhibitory tetanus does prevent the response of the motor neurones to the excitatory stimulation."

corticipetal    sensory    receptive    centripetal    corticoafferent   

efferent   

afferently   

efferent    postganglionic    presynaptic    cell-death    short-circuiting    cholinergic    enkephalin    coagulable    multipolar    biosynthetic