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Dictionary » A » Afferent AfferentAfferent (Science: anatomy) moving or carrying inward or toward a central part. Refers to vessels, nerves, etc. For example: blood vessels carrying blood toward the heart, or nerves conducting signals to the brain. Compare: efferent. ![]()
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Results from our forumDilation or ConstrictionIt triggers the constriction. For example when you're wounded and you start losing blood, renal afferent artery constricts and you stop losing more water from your body.
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Re: Vagus Nerve... the nerve exits the cranial cavity via the jugular foramen. Within the foramen is the superior ganglion, containing cell bodies of general somatic afferent fibres, and just external to the... * neurological examination ( in nervous system disease: Cranial nerves ) To examine glossopharyngeal and ...
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Questions about NeuronsThat wouldn't happen, because they would need to be intermediate neurons, and sensory neurons are only afferent.
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Dilation or ConstrictionDoes sympathetic nerve trigger the dilation or constriction of renal afferent artery? thx^^
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Oxygen levels in glomeruli... within the kidneys, certain substances are filtered out of the blood. This is why the concentrations of different substances differ between the afferent arteriole and the efferent arteriole. Now, in our textbook it says that although the glomeruli do not decrease the amount of oxygen in the ...
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