afferent
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In proprioception, proprioceptive and kinesthetic signals travel through myelinated afferent neurons running from the spinal cord to the medulla.
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These again split to form cortical radiate arteries that radiate out and branch into many afferent arterioles that enter the capillaries supplying the nephrons.
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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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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 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)
