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Adjective
/ˈaf(ə)rənt/,
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Conducting or conducted inward or toward something (for nerves, the central nervous system; for blood vessels, the organ supplied),
  1. Conducting or conducted inward or toward something (for nerves, the central nervous system; for blood vessels, the organ supplied)

Noun
  1. An afferent nerve fiber or vessel

  1. sensory nerve: a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system
  2. of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS; "afferent nerves"; "afferent impulses"
  3. Afferent is an anatomical term with the following meanings: *Conveying towards a center, for example the afferent arterioles conveying blood towards the Bowman's capsule in the Kidney. Opposite to Efferent. *Something that so conducts, see Afferent nerve fiber *Afferent lymphatic vessels
  4. An afferent structure or connection; Carrying towards
  5. adjective, Latin ad = to, and ferent = carrying (cf. ferry), hence, carrying to, e.g., axons carrying information from retina to lateral geniculate nucleus are afferents to that nucleus.
  6. moving or carrying inward or toward a central part. Refers to vessels, nerves, etc. For example, blood vessels carrying blood toward the heart, or nerves conducting signals to the brain. Contrast with efferent.
  7. carrying something (like a nerve impulse) toward the central part.
  8. Afferent is a general term applied to nerves or blood vessels that means nerve signals or blood are traveling from the peripheral to the center of the body.
  9. An axon coursing toward and innervating a given structure.
  10. Conducting inwards as fluid or a nerve impulse.
  11. refers to nerves that travel from the rest of the body (e.g., skin, muscles, organs) to the brain and spinal cord. Contrast with efferent.
  12. Information which travels toward the brain.
  13. means carrying towards, whereas efferent means carrying away from. These terms are relative. For example, the motor fibers in a nerve are efferents of the spinal cord and afferent to muscles.
  14. Input to the cell body and dendrites (Note: In the PNS, afferent = sensory, but not necessarily so within the CNS)
  15. Nerves that carry impulses from the periphery toward the brain.
  16. Pertaining to a flow of data or control from a subordinate module to a superordinate module in a software system. Contrast with: efferent.
  17. Neural pathway in which sensory information is transmitted to the brain and central nervous system.
  18. A conduction of impulses from the periphery of the body to the brain or spinal cord.
  19. Term used to describe neural pathways that have an 'affect'. They carry signals from the central nervous system to other parts of the body e.g. muscles.
  20. carrying impulses toward a center
  21. Conveying or transmitting to.