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.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
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.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
The branch that enters the glomerulus is called the afferent arteriole.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Efferent synapses occur on outer hair cells and on afferent dendrites under inner hair cells.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Dissect along the truncus arteriosus to afferent branchials.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
