adjective. Carrying inward to a central organ or section, as nerves that conduct impulses from the periphery of the body to the brain or spinal cord.

Bringing; carrying to or toward; conveying inward.

adjective. Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent

adjective. Carrying towards.

noun. An afferent structure or connection

adjective. of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS

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

"Thus: a given inhibitory tetanus exerted on a certain set of motoneurones fails to prevent their excitation in response to strong stimulation of a given afferent nerve; but when the stimulation of the excitatory afferent is weaker the given standard inhibitory tetanus does prevent the response of the motor neurones to the excitatory stimulation."

efferent  

centripetal  corticipetal  corticoafferent  receptive  sensory  

afferently  

biosynthetic  cell-death  chemokine  cholinergic  coagulable