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afferent

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Hence one of the goals to which each afferent fibre from a receptive organ leads is a number of motor nerves.

The spinal cord is like an upturned tree, with man's hair as its roots, and afferent and efferent nerves as branches.

Dissect along the truncus arteriosus to afferent branchials.

There are two divisions of nerves, the afferent and efferent.

From the gills the afferent branchials carry the blood to the median dorsal aorta.

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On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to afferent, such as: audiovisual, auditory, aural, neural, neurological, and olfactory.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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