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efferent

/'ɛfərənt/

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noun
a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands
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Similar:

efferent nerve motor nerve

type of:
nervus nerve
adjective
of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS
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"efferent nerves and impulses"

Similar:

motorial centrifugal corticifugal corticoefferent corticofugal motor neuromotor

Opposite:

afferent

Examples of efferent

"efferent nerves and impulses"