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efferent

adjective as in centrifugal

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If you’re what media savants call an “efferent reader,” looking for the efficient take-away, his approach will drive you bonkers.

Then, efferent nerves rapidly carry muscle-control signals back to the hand.

From Nature

Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; Ð opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the external organs to the brain.

When the collateral circulation is insufficient to remove the blood from a region whose efferent venous trunk is completely filled with a thrombus, the phenomena of stagnation are produced.

The blood is collected from the walls of the gill-sacs by a series of efferent vessels which open into the dorsal aorta.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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