afferent
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About 90 percent of the afferent neurons carry information from inner hair cells, with each hair cell synapsing with 10 or so neurons.
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Outer hair cells connect to only 10 percent of the afferent neurons, and each afferent neuron innervates many hair cells.
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Once the afferent arterioles are constricted, blood flow into the nephrons stops.
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These again split to form arcuate arteries, from which cortical radiate arteries radiate out and branch into many afferent arterioles that enter the capillaries supplying the nephrons.
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It is the latter or afferent function with which we are now concerned.
From Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance by Sepharial
