afferent

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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.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

In proprioception, proprioceptive and kinesthetic signals travel through myelinated afferent neurons running from the spinal cord to the medulla.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

They constrict the afferent arterioles, causing the flow of blood into the nephrons to stop.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

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.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

To illustrate Kidney structure.-- a.b.v., and e.b.v., afferent and efferent blood-vessels, of which the latter go to break up upon the tubli.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)