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Efferent   Listen
adjective
Efferent  adj.  (Physiol.)
(a)
Conveying outward, or discharging; applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc.
(b)
Conveyed outward; as, efferent impulses, i. e., such as are conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards; opposed to afferent.





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... arc a sense-organ is stimulated and the energy of stimulation is transformed into nervous energy, which then passes along an afferent nerve to the central nervous system, passes through this and out by an efferent or motor nerve to a muscle, where the energy is again transformed and the muscle contracts. Stimulation at one point of the animal organism produces contraction at another. The principles of irritability and of motility are involved, but all further study ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park


Words linked to "Efferent" :   motor nerve fiber, physiology, corticoefferent, corticofugal, motor, pyramidal motor system, afferent, anterior root, corticospinal tract, motor neuron, neuromotor, ventral horn, nervus, corticifugal


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