afferent
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The cortical radiate arteries branch into numerous afferent arterioles, and then enter the capillaries supplying the nephrons.
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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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It constricts the afferent arterioles, causing the flow of blood into the nephrons to stop.
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Thus, action potentials transmitted over a sensory receptor’s afferent axons encode one type of stimulus, and this segregation of the senses is preserved in other sensory circuits.
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A message along a nerve to a ganglion cell is an afferent impression, from a cell to a muscle or other external end is an efferent impression.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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