Crossword-Solution: EFFERENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Efferent | a. | Conveying outward, or discharging; -- applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc. |
| Efferent | a. | 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. |
| Efferent | n. | An efferent duct or stream. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “EFFERENT”
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| CARRYING away | 1 answer |
| CENTRIFUGAL | 5 answers |
| Away from. | 13 answers |
| Motor | 21 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EAZECM
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eruption
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Sentences with EFFERENT (5)
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.
Thus, if the mind constantly thinks of, say, the stomach as being in a badly diseased condition, unable to do its work properly, the mental images of weakness and disease with their accompanying fear vibrations are telegraphed over the efferent nerves to the cells of the stomach and these become more and more weakened and diseased through the destructive vibrations sent to them from the mind.
The afferent nerve reports directly to the efferent, without passing the message through consciousness.
The development of _Cypris_ has recently been observed by Claus:—“The youngest stages are shell-bearing Nauplius-forms.” [1] Leydig has compared this foliaceous appendage of the Water Slaters with the “green gland” or “shell-gland” of other crustacea, assuming that the green gland has no efferent duct and appealing to the fact that the two organs occur “in the same place.” This interpretation is by no means a happy one.
What was that root?--or, let us say, the mother lode, of which these were efferent veins? The Pilgrims and Puritans, heretics in Episcopalian England, had escaped from their persecution, but had banished heretics in their turn.