efferent
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It constricts the efferent arterioles, causing the flow of blood into the nephrons to stop.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
The branch that exits the glomerulus is called the efferent arteriole.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
A long reflex has afferent branches that enter the spinal cord or brain and involve the efferent branches, as previously explained.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Recall that the DCT is in intimate contact with the afferent and efferent arterioles of the glomerulus.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
A vast amount of our activities are reflex, and in such action an efferent stimulus follows an afferent promptly and quite mechanically.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
