Afferent Synonyms and Antonyms

ăfər-ənt
Transmitting impulses from sense organs to nerve centers
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. sensory
Antonyms:
  1. efferent
A nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. sensory nerve
  2. afferent nerve

Words Related to Afferent

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. body
  2. afferents
  3. thalamic
  4. nociceptive
  5. mechanoreceptors
  6. C-fibre
  7. efferents
  8. gabaergic
  9. interneurones
  10. midbrain
  11. excitatory

Afferent Sentence Examples

  • Hence the blood returns once more to the afferent vessel through a splanchnic sinus which surrounds the stomach.

  • One of these branches communicates with the afferent lophophoral vessel, while the other one opens into the crescentic efferent lophophoral vessel (r.v.).

  • These processes are hollow, and receive the venous blood from, and return it again aerated into, the hollow axis, in which an afferent and an efferent blood-vessel may be differentiated.

  • In the filaments of the gill of Protobranchia and many Filibranchia the tubular cavity is divided by a more or less complete fibrous septum into two channels, for an afferent and efferent blood-current.

  • Branchial filaments united by vascular interfilamentar junctions and vascular interlamellar junctions; the latter contain the afferent vessels.

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