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Efferent

adjective

Of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS. Synonym: motorial.

noun

A nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands. Synonyms: efferent nerve, motor nerve.

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... The actuated field of the device had scanned his nervous system, measured and tested it precisely. Then adjusted itself to the exact micro-frequency that carried the messages in his efferent nervous system. Once the adjustment had been made, the charged condensers had released their full blasts of energy ...

— The K-Factor • Harry Harrison (AKA Henry Maxwell Dempsey)

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... physical irritant, be this as gross in its mode of operation as a chopping axe or as subtle as the waves of light, convey the excitement to the nervous centres. The commotion set up in the centres does not stop there, but discharges through the efferent nerves, exciting movements which vary with the animal and with the ...

— A Study of Poetry • Bliss Perry

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... Ligia and Cassidina. The foliaceous appendage on the back has long been known in the young of the common Water Slater (Asellus).* (* Leydig has compared this foliaceous appendage of the Water Slaters with the "green gland" or "shell-gland" of other crustacea, assuming that the green gland has no efferent duct and appealing to the fact that the two organs occur "in the same place." This interpretation is by no means a happy one. In the first place we may easily ascertain in Leucifer, as was also found to be the case by Claus, that the "green gland" ...

— Facts and Arguments for Darwin • Fritz Muller

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... 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 the anterior root (5), the cells of this part being connected by their axis-cylinder with the efferent fibers (6). These convey the stimulus to the fibers of the muscle (7), which accordingly contract. Where the brain is concerned in the action the circuit is longer through ...

— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell

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