afferent

From Latin adferens (“bringing to”), present participle of adferre (“to bring to”), from ad (“to, toward”) + ferre (“to carry, bear”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.fə.ɹənt/, /ˈæ.fɜː.ənt/

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afferent (not comparable)

1. Carrying towards.

   Antonym: efferent

   An afferent nerve carries impulses from the body to the brain.

afferent (plural afferents)

1. An afferent structure or connection

• afferented

• “afferent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “afferent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “afferent”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

afferent

1. (anatomy) carrying towards central organs

• efferent

• “afferent” in Den Danske Ordbog

afferent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of afferō