Efferent Definition

ĕfər-ənt
adjective
Directed away from a central organ or section.
American Heritage Medicine
Carrying away from a central part; specif., designating nerves that carry impulses away from a nerve center.
Webster's New World
Carried outward.
Efferent impulses are those conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • motorial
Antonyms:
noun
An efferent nerve, duct, etc.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • motor nerve
  • efferent nerve

Other Word Forms of Efferent

Noun

Singular:
efferent
Plural:
efferents

Origin of Efferent

  • From Latin efferēns efferent- present participle of efferre to carry off ex- ex- ferre to carry bher-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin efferēns, present active participle of efferō (“bring or carry out”), from ē (“out of”), short form of ex, + ferō (“carry, bear”).

    From Wiktionary

Efferent Sentence Examples

  • The male ducts are either one pair or two pairs, which open by a common and complicated efferent terminal apparatus furnished with a protrusible penis.

  • By the pulsation of the pericardial vesicle (best observed in the larva) the blood is driven into the glomerulus, from which it issues by efferent vessels which effect a junction with the ventral (sub-intestinal) vessel in the trunk.

  • These processes are hollow, and receive the venous blood from, and return it again aerated into, the hollow axis, in which an afferent and an efferent blood-vessel may be differentiated.

  • In the filaments of the gill of Protobranchia and many Filibranchia the tubular cavity is divided by a more or less complete fibrous septum into two channels, for an afferent and efferent blood-current.

  • Each is an outgrowth of the body-wall at the side of the body, and consists of an axis containing two main vessels, an afferent and efferent, and bearing on either side a series of transverse plates whose blood-sinuses communicate with the vessels of the axis.

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