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Definition of Afferents
1. afferent [n] - See also: afferent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Afferents
Literary usage of Afferents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harvard Psychological Studies by Harvard Psychological Laboratory (1922)
"When both afferents arc stimulated simultaneously with appropriate intensity,
the discharge from the flexor half-center represents the algebraic sum of the ..."
2. Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray, Warren Harmon Lewis (1918)
"Their afferents drain the skin and muscles of the anterior and lateral thoracic
... Its afferents are the efferent vessels of all the preceding groups of ..."
3. Clinical Rheumatology: A Problem-oriented Approach to Diagnosis and Management by Roland W. Moskowitz (1921)
"They receive afferents from the nasal fossa, nasal pharynx and Eustachian tube.
Their efferents pass to the glands of the deep cervical chain. 4. ..."
4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The anterior set comprises (a) two or three small glands behind the base of the
xiphoid process, which receive afferents from the convex surface of the ..."
5. The Lymphatics: General Anatomy of the Lymphatics by Gabriel Delamare, Bernard Cunéo, Cecil Huntington Leaf (1904)
"Each glandular group of the axilla receives different afferents. In the humeral
glands terminate almost all the superficial and •deep lymphatics of the ..."
6. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"A second objective was to determine what portion of the cardiovascular responses
to PEEP might be reflexly mediated by vagal afferents. ..."
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