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AFFERENT NERVE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous systemplay

Synonyms:

afferent; afferent nerve; sensory nerve

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("afferent nerve" is a kind of...):

nerve; nervus (any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body)

Meronyms (parts of "afferent nerve"):

afferent neuron; sensory neuron (a neuron conducting impulses inwards to the brain or spinal cord)

afferent fiber; sensory fiber (a nerve fiber that carries impulses toward the central nervous system)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "afferent nerve"):

dorsal horn; dorsal root; posterior horn; posterior root (one of two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally from the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers)

fillet; lemniscus (a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus)

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