Efferent Synonyms

ĕf'ər-ənt

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Synonyms for Efferent

motor nerve
a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands
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motorial
of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS
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efferent nerve
a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands
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Words Related to Efferent

afferent
(Physiol.) Bringing inward to a central part; specif., designating nerves that transmit impulses to the central nervous system, as to the brain
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gabaergic
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effectors
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brainstem
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thalamic
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thalamus
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Efferent Sentence Examples

  • The male ducts are either one pair or two pairs, which open by a common and complicated efferent terminal apparatus furnished with a protrusible penis.

  • Each testis communicates by means of an efferent duct with a common collecting duct of its side of the body, which opens on to the exterior by means of a protrusible penis, and to which is sometimes appended a seminal vesicle.

  • The efferent ducts are ciliated, and there is a patch of cilia at the point where they communicate with the cavity of each testis.

  • By the pulsation of the pericardial vesicle (best observed in the larva) the blood is driven into the glomerulus, from which it issues by efferent vessels which effect a junction with the ventral (sub-intestinal) vessel in the trunk.

  • 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.

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