efferent

1. 1.

   of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS

   “efferent nerves and impulses”

   Synonymsmotorial

   Antonymsafferent

   Similarcentrifugalcorticoefferentneuromotor

   physiology

Other forms of efferent

plural

efferents·

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.

Questions about efferent

What does efferent mean?

efferent means "a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in efferent?

efferent has 3 syllables: ef-fe-rent. The stress falls on "ef". In IPA it is /ˈɛfɚənt/.

What is another word for efferent?

Close synonyms include motor nerve, efferent nerve, motorial. 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.

What is the opposite of efferent?

The recorded antonyms are afferent.

Is efferent a common word?

efferent 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.