Crossword-Solution: AFFERENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Afferent | a. | Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the external organs to the brain. |
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| Conveying impulses to a nerve center | 1 answer |
| Conveying impulses toward a nerve center | 1 answer |
| sensory | 4 answers |
| CONVEYING SENSORY INFORMATION FROM THE SENSE ORGANS TO THE CNS | 11 answers |
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Sentences with AFFERENT (5)
MacDonald offers as a physiologic explanation of this case that probably the impression produced forty-two years before implicated the right brachial plexus and the afferent branches of the pneumogastric, and to some degree the vomiting center in the medulla; hence, when the atmosphere was highly charged with electricity the structures affected became more readily impressed.
This circuit of communication from the cell over the afferent nerves to the nerve centers in the brain or spinal cord, and from these centers over the efferent nerves back to the cell or to other cells is called the reflex arc.
This lack of blood and sensation of cold are at once telegraphed over the afferent nerves to headquarters in the brain, and from there the command goes forth to the nerve centers regulating the circulation: "Send blood into the surface!" As a result, the circulation is stirred up and accelerated throughout the system and the blood rushes with force into the depleted skin, flushing the surface of the body with warm, red blood and restoring to it the rosy color of health.
When a bad smell causes a grimace, there is a reflex action through the same motor nerve, while the olfactory nerves constitute the afferent channels.
Copyright (C) 2002 by Steven Sills AN AMERICAN PAPYRUS: 25 POEMS by Steven Sills Post Annulment 2 Afferent, the city bus cramps to the curb and brakes through Solipsistic muteness With an exhaltation startled and choking.
Quotes with AFFERENT (1)
That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1981–1983).