EFFERENT

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Conveying outward, or discharging; -- applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc.

2.
a.

Conveyed outward; as, efferent impulses, i. e., such as are conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards; -- opposed to afferent.

3.
n.

An efferent duct or stream.


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