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
This reflex is similar to the somatic reflex, but the efferent branch is composed of two neurons.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Because the efferent branch of a visceral reflex involves two neurons—the central neuron and the ganglionic neuron—a “short circuit” can be possible.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The glomerulus is a high-pressure capillary bed between afferent and efferent arterioles.
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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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