Meaning & use
Afferents
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Nerve fibers or vessels that carry impulses or fluid toward a central organ, such as the brain or spinal cord.
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Sensory afferents relay information about touch and temperature from the skin to the spinal cord.
The study measured how quickly signals traveled along the afferents from the retina to the brain.
A note on using this word
Afferent comes from the Latin 'afferre,' to bring toward; its opposite, 'efferent,' describes fibers carrying signals away from a center.
Words with an opposite meaning
efferents
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