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Definition of Efferent

1. Noun. A nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands.

2. Adjective. Of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS. "Efferent nerves and impulses"

Definition of Efferent

1. a. Conveying outward, or discharging; -- applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc.

2. n. An efferent duct or stream.

Definition of Efferent

1. Adjective. Carrying away from. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Efferent

1. an organ or part conveying nervous impulses to an effector [n -S]

Medical Definition of Efferent

1. Moving or carrying outward or away from a central part. Refers to vessels, nerves, etc. For example: blood vessels carrying blood away from the heart or nerves carrying signals from the brain. Compare: afferent. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Efferent

effeminateness effeminates effeminating effemination effeminations effeminize effeminized effeminizes effeminizing effenbergerite

effendi effendis effere effered efference efferent (current term) efferent arteriole efferent ducts efferent fibres efferent glomerular arteriole

efferent lymphatic efferent nerve efferent neuron efferent pathways efferent vessel efferently efferents efferes

Literary usage of Efferent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"The efferent fibers, constituting the small root, arise from nerve cells in ... The facial nerve proper consists of only efferent fibers, which arise from ..."

2. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1905)
"Afferent and efferent Fibers in the Cranial Nerves.—The first and second cranial nerves, the olfactory and the optic, contain only afferent fibers, ..."

3. The Anatomy of the Nervous System from the Standpoint of Development and by Stephen Walter Ranson (1920)
"The bulbar rootlets of the accessory nerve, which contain both general and special visceral efferent fibers, form a well-defined fascicle, ..."

4. A Text book of physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"Putting all these facts together, it would seem that the growth of the efferent and afferent fibres takes place in opposite directions, and starts from ..."

5. The Nervous System of Vertebrates by John Black Johnston (1906)
"The visceral efferent nuclei in the spinal cord occupy a position dorsal to the ventral ... In lower vertebrates the visceral efferent column of the cord is ..."

6. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"C. Examination of General Motility and of the efferent Paths that Influence Striped Muscle We must next learn how to examine the functions of the efferent, ..."

7. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1892)
"The present communication has reference to the distribution of the efferent fibres of the roots. Reil,* Scarpa.f A. Monro.J and Soemmering§ all paid ..."

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