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Afferent

noun

A nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system. Synonyms: afferent nerve, sensory nerve.

adjective

Of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS. "Afferent impulses"

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... dilated at the free extremity, to which is appended a folded and funnel-shaped process of membrane, which expands rather suddenly, presenting a jagged and irregular border. They open by a smooth and oval or slit-like, orifice into the afferent pulmonary vessels, on each of which, as Professor Owen has observed, they are disposed in three clusters. The outer membrane is smooth and glassy, homogeneous in structure and sprinkled over with minute ...

— Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 - Zoology • Various

... surface (1) an afferent impulse passes along (2) to the posterior root of the spinal cord, the nerve fibers of the posterior root ending in minute filaments among the small cells of this part of the cord (3). In some unknown way this impulse passes across the gray part of the cord to the large cells of ...

— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell

... The afferent nerves are those which convey the impression to the nerve centers. All the sensory nerves belong to ...

— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture

... of the elastic membrane, just beneath the ectoderm, is a plexus or cobweb of nervous cells and fibrils. As in every nervous system, three elements are here to be found. 1. An afferent or sensory nerve-fibril, which under adequate stimulus is set in vibration by some cell of the epidermis or ectoderm, which is therefore called a sensory cell. 2. A central or ganglion cell, which receives the sensory impulse, translates it into consciousness, ...

— The Whence and the Whither of Man • John Mason Tyler

... sentient surface (1) an afferent impulse passes along (2) to the posterior root of the spinal cord, the nerve fibers of the posterior root ending in minute filaments among the small cells of this part of the cord (3). In some unknown way this impulse passes across the gray part of the cord to the large cells ...

— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell