1. in a manner relating to or denoting nerve fibers or pathways that carry signals away from the central nervous system to muscles or glands
Usage: medical/anatomical term; used in physiology and neuroscience contexts

Examples

• The motor neurons conduct impulses efferently from the spinal cord to the leg muscles.
• Efferently transmitted signals control the contraction of skeletal muscles.
• The autonomic nervous system acts efferently to regulate heart rate and digestion.
• Efferently directed nerve pathways enable voluntary movement.
• The brain sends commands efferently through the nervous system to produce coordinated responses.