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Definition of Efferently
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Efferently
Literary usage of Efferently
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1879)
"... depicts a propagation of influences from stimulus through receptor and afferent
path to the central synapses and out again efferently to effectors, ..."
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)
"... and again efferently. As examples of these reflexes, we may cite the phenomenon
of the section of gut, removed from the body, into which a small rubber ..."
3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1912)
"... causes psychosis, ie, causes will; the psychosis efferently (in regard to the
ego) causes neurosis and bodily motion. He simply affirms the chain of ..."
4. Brain and Personality: Or, the Physical Relations of the Brain to the Mind by William Hanna Thomson (1906)
"Many persons, indeed, not only cannot think long by will, that is, think efferently,
but they cannot even think long ..."
5. Therapeutics: Its Principles and Practice by Horatio Charles Wood (1908)
"... led him to conclude that the power of conducting impulses efferently, or ¡rom
the centre, is first lost in the spinal cord poisoned with cocaine. ..."
6. International Clinics (1901)
"... of one eye reaches with equal force each side of the brain, and is efferently
transmitted with the same intensity to each sphincter pupillae muscle. ..."
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