afferent
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Once the afferent arterioles are constricted, blood flow into the nephrons stops.
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It constricts the afferent arterioles, causing the flow of blood into the nephrons to stop.
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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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The afferent, bipolar neurons that convey auditory information travel from the cochlea to the medulla, through the pons and midbrain in the brainstem, finally reaching the primary auditory cortex in the temporal lobe.
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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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