efferent
IPA: ˈɛfɝʌnt
noun
- A duct or stream that carries away.
adjective
- Carrying away from.
- Carried outward.
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Examples of "efferent" in Sentences
- Use as efferent urinary conduit.
- Of the somatic efferent neurons, there exist subtypes.
- Efferent Coupling is a metric in software development.
- The efferent axons of the subiculum follow the fornix.
- The opposite activity of direction or flow is efferent.
- Targeted reinnervation has an efferent and an afferent component.
- A large efferent coupling can indicate that a class is unfocused.
- The efferent fibers are distributed to the solitary tract nucleus.
- Neurons are generally both afferent AND efferent at the same time.
- Efferent lymphatic vessels are also found in the thymus and spleen.
- Motor neurons make up the efferent neurons of both the somatic and autonomic nervous systems.
- Her stances were aesthetic and efferent, the former being reading for emotional/artistic reasons and the latter for informational reasons.
- The second efferent system is the autonomic nervous system, which carries motor information to smooth muscles, cardiac muscle, and various glands.
- The boat's central director-essentially a computer whose input came from the instruments and whose efferent impulses went directly to the controls-performed the basic operations.
- The PNS contains two forms of nerves: afferent nerves, which relay sensory information to the CNS, and efferent nerves, which relay motor commands from the CNS to various muscles and glands.
- The fibres which come ultimately from the ventral aspect of the spinal marrow, are those which carry an influence outwards, and produce a contraction in the muscles, and are therefore called efferent or motor.
- Each dimension corresponds to activity rates in one of three classes of photoreceptors present in the human retina and their efferent paths: the red-green opponent pathway, yellow-blue opponent pathway, and black-white (contrast) opponent pathway.
- Human gustatory representations are points in a four-dimensional state space, with each dimension coding for activity rates generated by gustatory stimuli in each type of taste receptor (sweet, salty, sour, bitter) and their segregated efferent pathways.
- Another thought experiment (Kirk 1974b) involves a team of micro-Lilliputians who invade Gulliver™s head, disconnect his afferent and efferent nerves, monitor the inputs from his afferent nerves, and send outputs down his efferent nerves to produce behavior indistinguishable from what it would have been originally.
- Whatever the specifics, they wrote, the important thing is that the stimulation affected only “a few cubic millimeters of neural tissue,” which means that “the depression probably resulted from the stimulation of afferent, efferent, or passing fibers within the substantia nigra or from the inhibition of those fibers.”