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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.
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



... vital and muscular processes in the body, finding expression in vital action. In its passive and negative state it is affected by impressions coming to it in different ways through the sense organs, resulting in nervous and mental action. These two functions are interdependent. It is the latter or afferent function with which we are now concerned. The range of our sense-perceptions puts us momentarily in relations with the material world, or rather, with a certain portion of it. For we by no means sense all that is sensible, and, as I have ...
— Second Sight - A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance • Sepharial
... more protected part of the body, and formed there the foundation of a central nervous organ. As a result of increased differentiation, the skin and the central nervous system became further and further separated, and in the end the two were only permanently connected by the afferent peripheral sensory nerves. ...
— The Evolution of Man, V.2 • Ernst Haeckel
... The afferent nerves are those which convey the impression to the nerve centers. All the sensory nerves belong to ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture


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