afferent has definitions from the field of physiology
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[ adjective ] (physiology) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS

Examples

"afferent nerves" "afferent impulses"

Used in print

(J. W. C. Hagstrom et al., "Debilitating muscular...)

Throughout , there were marked arteriolosclerosis and hyalinization of afferent glomerular arterioles .

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