AFFERENT NERVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does afferent nerve mean? 

• AFFERENT NERVE (noun)
  The noun AFFERENT NERVE has 1 sense:

1. a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system

  Familiarity information: AFFERENT NERVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFFERENT NERVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

afferent; afferent nerve; sensory nerve

Hypernyms ("afferent nerve" is a kind of...):

nerve; nervus (any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body)

Meronyms (parts of "afferent nerve"):

afferent neuron; sensory neuron (a neuron conducting impulses inwards to the brain or spinal cord)

afferent fiber; sensory fiber (a nerve fiber that carries impulses toward the central nervous system)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "afferent nerve"):

dorsal horn; dorsal root; posterior horn; posterior root (one of two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally from the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers)

fillet; lemniscus (a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus)

 Context examples 

Cutting off the afferent nerve supply.

(Deafferentation, NCI Thesaurus)