afferent

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system
• Syn:
sensory nerve, afferent nerve
• Hypernyms:
nerve, nervus
• Hyponyms:
dorsal root, dorsal horn, lemniscus, fillet
• Part Meronyms:
sensory neuron, afferent neuron, sensory fiber, afferent fiber

II - adjective

of nerves and nerve impulses;
conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS (Freq. 1)
- afferent nerves
- afferent impulses
• Ant:
efferent
• Similar to:
centripetal, receptive, sensory, corticoafferent, corticipetal
• Topics:
physiology

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  sensory nerve, afferent nerve
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  efferent, motorial