adjective
- carrying or conducting inward toward a central organ or point, especially describing nerves that carry sensory information to the brain or spinal cord
Usage: medical; anatomy
Examples
- Afferent nerves transmit pain signals from the injured tissue to the spinal cord.
- The doctor explained that afferent pathways carry sensory information to the brain.
- Damage to afferent nerve fibers can result in loss of sensation.
- Afferent blood vessels bring blood toward the organ.
- The afferent division of the nervous system includes sensory neurons.
- Researchers studied how afferent signals influence motor responses.