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Definition of Afferently
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Afferently
Literary usage of Afferently
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1892)
"By these means the effect of the practice was confined afferently to the left
thumb and forefinger, ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1914)
"... impulse becomes converted into an efferent one without the interposition of
a cell body and further, that a single neuron can at one time act afferently ..."
3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1912)
"I quite agree—the psychosis being neurosis consciously felt. The neurosis afferently
causes psychosis, ie, causes will; the psychosis ..."
4. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"... fibers were now conducting afferently. We now know that in such a case the
old hypoglossal fibers degenerate completely, and the new ones that are ..."
5. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1905)
"... union had been established, gave signs of sensation it was considered as proof
that the efferent hypo- glossal fibers were now conducting afferently. ..."
6. Brain and Personality: Or, the Physical Relations of the Brain to the Mind by William Hanna Thomson (1906)
"... but they cannot even think long afferently by will, as, for example, in the
passive mental exercise of listening. If they listen at all, they must have ..."
7. A Treatise on the Law of New Trials in Cases Civil and Criminal by David Graham, Thomas Whitney Waterman (1855)
"... '\ere should be a decided pre- < there is no such prepon- ot, Imlay and
Griswold ' before the first judge. .ud it appears from there- .afferently on the ..."
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