Associations to the word «Efferent»

Wiktionary

EFFERENT, adjective. Carrying away from.
EFFERENT, adjective. Carried outward.
EFFERENT, noun. A duct or stream that carries away.
EFFERENT ARTERIOLE, noun. (anatomy) Any of the many minute blood vessels formed by the merging of the capillaries of the glomerulus that conduct blood away from it.
EFFERENT DUCT, noun. (anatomy) A structure connecting the rete testis with the initial section of the epididymis.
EFFERENT DUCTS, noun. Plural of efferent duct

Dictionary definition

EFFERENT, noun. A nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands.
EFFERENT, adjective. Of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS; "efferent nerves and impulses".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope