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adj. Directed away from a central organ or section.

adj. Carrying impulses from the central nervous system to an effector.

n. An efferent organ or body part, such as a blood vessel.

adj. Carrying away from.

n. A duct or stream that carries away.

adj. Conveying outward, or discharging; -- applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc.

adj. Conveyed outward; ; -- opposed to afferent.

n. An efferent duct or stream.

Conveying outward or away; deferent: as, the efferent nerves, which convey a nervous impulse from the ganglionic center outward to the muscles or other active tissue.

n. In anatomy and physiology, a vessel or nerve which conveys outward.

n. A river flowing from and bearing away the waters of a lake.

n. a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands

adj. of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS

"The fibres which come ultimately from the ventral aspect of the spinal marrow, are those which carry an influence outwards, and produce a contraction in the muscles, and are therefore called efferent or motor."

motor    corticoefferent    centrifugal    corticifugal    neuromotor    corticofugal   

afferent   

efferent duct   

afferent    postganglionic    signal-transduction    coagulable    biosynthetic    multipolar    endocytic    mesolimbic    transendothelial    pentose