afferent

See also: afférent

English

Etymology

From Latin adferens (“bringing to”), present participle of adferre (“to bring to”), from ad (“to, toward”) + ferre (“to carry, bear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.fə.ɹənt/, IPA^(key): /ˈæ.fɜː.ənt/

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Adjective

afferent (not comparable)

1. Carrying towards.

   Antonym: efferent

   An afferent nerve carries impulses from the body to the brain.

Derived terms

• afferentation
• afferently
• baroafferent
• cerebroafferent
• chemoafferent
• deafferent
• exafferent
• mechanoafferent
• nonafferent
• pseudoafferent
• reafferent
• thermoafferent

Translations

Carrying towards

• Czech: dostředivý (about nerves)
• Finnish: afferentti
• French: afférent (fr)
• German: hinführend (de), afferent
• Ido: adduktanta (io), adduktiva (io)
• Indonesian: aferen
• Italian: afferente (it)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hatî (ku)

• Malay: aferen
• Persian: آوران (fa) (âvarân)
• Portuguese: aferente (pt)
• Russian: афферентный (ru) (afferentnyj)
• Spanish: aferente (es)
• Swedish: afferent (sv), inåtledande

Noun

afferent (plural afferents)

1. An afferent structure or connection

Derived terms

• afferented

Further reading

• “afferent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “afferent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “afferent”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Danish

Adjective

afferent

1. (anatomy) carrying towards central organs

Inflection

Inflection of afferent

	positive	comparative	superlative
indefinite common singular	afferent	—	—2
indefinite neuter singular	afferent	—	—2
plural	afferente	—	—2
definite attributive1	afferente	—	—

¹ When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
² The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Antonyms

• efferent

Further reading

• “afferent” in Den Danske Ordbog

Latin

Verb

afferent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of afferō