afferent
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These again split to form cortical radiate arteries that radiate out and branch into many afferent arterioles that enter the capillaries supplying the nephrons.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
They constrict the afferent arterioles, causing the flow of blood into the nephrons to stop.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
It constricts the afferent arterioles, causing the flow of blood into the nephrons to stop.
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Efferent synapses occur on outer hair cells and on afferent dendrites under inner hair cells.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Changes in other organs as the result of arteriosclerosis of their afferent vessels occur, but are not so characteristic as in the kidney.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
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