EFFERENT NERVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does efferent nerve mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EFFERENT NERVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

efferent; efferent nerve; motor nerve

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "efferent nerve"):

efferent neuron; motoneuron; motor nerve fiber; motor neuron (a neuron conducting impulses outwards from the brain or spinal cord)

efferent fiber; motor fiber (a nerve fiber that carries impulses toward the muscles or glands)

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

anterior horn; anterior root; ventral horn; ventral root (one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers)

corticospinal tract; pyramidal motor system; pyramidal tract (any of the important motor nerves on each side of the central nervous system that run from the sensorimotor areas of the cortex through the brainstem to motor neurons of the cranial nerve nuclei and the ventral root of the spinal cord)