Conveying outward, or discharging; -- applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc.
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.
ex = away + ferre = to carry; centrifugal; e.g., motor nerves are efferent with respect to central nervous system; efferent arteriole of renal glomerulus; opposite to afferent, q.v.
An axon which conveys information away from the central nervous system
descriptive term applied to vessels (blood or lymphatic) flowing out of an organ or structure. ( afferent).
Carrying impulses away from the central nervous system.
Conveying or carrying away from a center (opposite of afferent). Example: an efferent neuron carries information from the central nervous system to the periphery.
moving or carrying outward or away from a central part. Refers to vessels, nerves, etc. For example: blood vessels carrying blood away from the heart or nerves carrying signals from the brain
Motor; a division of the peripheral nervous system.
refers to nerves that travel from the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body. Contrast with afferent.
outward direction of neural impulses, from the central nervous system toward the periphery
ex: out + ferre: to bear] • Away from, as in neurons that conduct action potentials out from the central nervous system, or arterioles that conduct blood away from a structure. (Contrast with afferent.)
Motor pathway proceeding from the central nervous system toward the peripheral end organs.
Conveying a fluid or a nerve impulse away from a central organ (as opposed to afferent)
An efferent neural signal is one which propagates away from the brain (ie. towards the periphery). An efferent neurone is a nerve which transmits efferent neural signals. (see also "centrifugal" and "descending")
An axon conducting action potentials outward from the central nervous system. See Afferent.
Output from the cell body (Note: In the PNS, efferent = motor, but not necessarily so in the CNS)
Efferent means conducting (fluid or a nerve impulse) outward from a given organ or part thereof, e.g. the efferent connections of a group of nerve cells, efferent blood vessels, or the excretory duct of an organ.
Carrying away from a central organ; nerve impulses leaving the brain to peripheral tissues.
refers to a neuron or pathway that transmits signals away from the CNS to the periphery or some other CNS site
Refers to nerve fibres that are part of a motor pathway - convey information from CNS to effectors.
Originating from the central nervous system, a nerve impulse which travels to a nerve or muscle.
'carrying away'. Strictly, applies to nerve impulses traveling away from the CNS; also used regionally, e.g. cerebellar efferents. See also Centrifugal.
Carrying away from. opp. Afferent.
carrying something (like a nerve impulse) away from the central part.
