afferent nerve

Questions about afferent nerve

What does afferent nerve mean?

afferent nerve means "a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system".

What is another word for afferent nerve?

Close synonyms include sensory nerve, afferent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is afferent nerve a common word?

afferent nerve is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.