adjective. Directed away from a central organ or section.

adjective. Carrying impulses from the central nervous system to an effector.

noun. An efferent organ or body part, such as a blood vessel.

Conveying outward or away; deferent: as, the efferent nerves, which convey a nervous impulse from the ganglionic center outward to the muscles or other active tissue.

noun. In anatomy and physiology, a vessel or nerve which conveys outward.

noun. A river flowing from and bearing away the waters of a lake.

adjective. Conveying outward, or discharging; -- applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc.

adjective. Conveyed outward; ; -- opposed to afferent.

noun. An efferent duct or stream.

adjective. Carrying away from.

noun. A duct or stream that carries away.

noun. a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands

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

"The fibres which come ultimately from the ventral aspect of the spinal marrow, are those which carry an influence outwards, and produce a contraction in the muscles, and are therefore called efferent or motor."

afferent  

efferent duct  

centrifugal  corticifugal  corticoefferent  corticofugal  motor  

afferent  autophagic  biosynthetic  coagulable  endocytic