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say it: AF-ur-uhnt
afferent is a noun and adjective meaning "a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system
of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS
“afferent nerves”
“afferent impulses”
physiology
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for afferent come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.