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efferent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Efferent may
refer to:
Meaning 'conveying away from a center':
Efferent arterioles,
conveying blood...
- The
efferent ducts (also
efferent ductules,
ductuli efferentes,
ductus efferentes, or vasa efferentia)
connect the rete
testis with the
initial section...
- The
efferent arterioles are
blood vessels that are part of the
urinary tract of organisms.
Efferent (from
Latin ex + ferre)
means "outgoing", in this...
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General visceral efferent fibers (GVE),
visceral efferents or
autonomic efferents are the
efferent nerve fibers of the
autonomic nervous system (also...
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Efferent coupling is a
coupling metric in
software development. It
measures the
number of data
types a
class knows about. This
includes inheritance, interface...
- and
efferent projections. In the
context of a
given brain region,
afferents are
arriving fibers while efferents are
exiting fibers. The
efferent nerve...
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Special visceral efferent fibers (SVE) are the
efferent nerve fibers that
provide motor innervation to the
muscles of the
pharyngeal arches in humans,...
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afferent lymph vessels, and
those that
carry it from a
lymph node are
called efferent lymph vessels, from
where the
lymph may
travel to
another lymph node, may...
- The
vagus nerve,
composed of both
sensory afferents and
parasympathetic efferents,
carries signals from
stretch receptors, osmoreceptors, and chemoreceptors...
- in
mediating vasoconstriction, the
function of the plexus'
efferents is unclear.
Efferents are
apparently involved in
regulating hepatic metabolism, and...
