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Afferent

noun

A nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system. Synonyms: afferent nerve, sensory nerve.

adjective

Of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS. "Afferent impulses"

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... the gradual transition from the deliberate motor reaction, which occurs only after complex and varied central neural activities, and the purely reflex reaction, which takes place as soon as the efferent impulse can cause changes in the spinal centers and be transmitted as an afferent impulse ...

— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various

... surface (1) an afferent impulse passes along (2) to the posterior root of the spinal cord, the nerve fibers of the posterior root ending in minute filaments among the small cells of this part of the cord (3). In some unknown way this impulse passes across the gray part of the cord to the large cells of ...

— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell

... of the elastic membrane, just beneath the ectoderm, is a plexus or cobweb of nervous cells and fibrils. As in every nervous system, three elements are here to be found. 1. An afferent or sensory nerve-fibril, which under adequate stimulus is set in vibration by some cell of the epidermis or ectoderm, which is therefore called a sensory cell. 2. A central or ganglion cell, which receives the sensory impulse, translates it into consciousness, ...

— The Whence and the Whither of Man • John Mason Tyler

... at a flash of light, or a threatened blow, a reflex action takes place, in which the afferent nerves are the optic, the efferent, the facial. 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. In these cases, therefore, reflex action must be effected through the brain, all the nerves involved ...

— Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society • Walter Bagehot