afferent

afferent has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• a.. Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the external organs to the brain.
• n.. a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system
• a.. of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS; "afferent nerves"; "afferent impulses"