单词 | afferent |
释义 | afferent (once / 72069 pages) adjn WORD FAMILY afferent: afferents USAGE EXAMPLESIn July, it acquired biotech Afferent Pharmaceuticals for about $500 million. Wall Street Journal(Aug 02, 2016) In July, Afferent said it completed a $55 million Series C financing led by Fidelity Management & Research Co. Wall Street Journal(Jun 09, 2016) The lesions of the arteriosclerotic kidney are due to narrowing and eventual obstruction of the afferent vessels. Warfield, Louis Marshall, Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension:...(2011) 1adj of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS afferent nerves afferent impulses Syn|Ant centripetal, receptive, sensory of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system corticipetal, corticoafferentof a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex efferent, motorial of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS centrifugal, motorconveying information to the muscles from the CNS corticifugal, corticoefferent, corticofugalof a nerve fiber passing outward from the cerebral cortex neuromotorrelating to a nerve fiber or impulse passing toward motor effectors 2n a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system Syn|Hypo|Hyper afferent nerve, sensory nerve dorsal horn, dorsal root one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally to the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers fillet, lemniscusa bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus nerve, nervus any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body |
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