EFFERENT
\ˈɛfɹənt], \ˈɛfɹənt], \ˈɛ_f_ɹ_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of EFFERENT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS; "efferent nerves and impulses"
By Princeton University
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Conveying outward, or discharging; - applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc.
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Conveyed outward; as, efferent impulses, i. e., such as are conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards; - opposed to afferent.
By Oddity Software
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Conveying outward, or discharging; - applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc.
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Conveyed outward; as, efferent impulses, i. e., such as are conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards; - opposed to afferent.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
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In physiol. a vessel or nerve which discharges or conveys outward: also, a river flowing from and bearing away the waters of a lake.
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In physiol. conveying outwards or discharging; as, the efferent lymphatics, which convey lymph from the lymphatic glands to the thoracic duct.
By Daniel Lyons
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Conveying from, vessels, lymphatics, etc.; carrying outwards, impulses carried outwards by the motor nerves.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Conveying outwards, as from the centre to the periphery. Vans efferentia are those lymphatic or chyliferous vessels which issue from the glands to convey their lymph to the thoracic duct; so called to distinguish them from those which pass to those glands, and which have been termed vasa afferentia seu inferentia. Also, nerves that convey the nervous influence from the nervous centres to the circumference. See Afferent. At the upper extremity of the mediastinum testis, the ducts of the rete testis terminate in from 9 to 30 small ducts, called vasa efferentia, which forms the Coni vasculosi.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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