Efferent Synonyms and Antonyms

ĕfər-ənt
Carrying away from a central part; specif., designating nerves that carry impulses away from a nerve center
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. motorial
Antonyms:
  1. afferent
A nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. motor nerve
  2. efferent nerve

Words Related to Efferent

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. gabaergic
  2. effectors
  3. thalamus
  4. brainstem

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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Each is an outgrowth of the body-wall at the side of the body, and consists of an axis containing two main vessels, an afferent and efferent, and bearing on either side a series of transverse plates whose blood-sinuses communicate with the vessels of the axis.

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