Definitions for efferent

efferent ef·fer·ent

Spelling: [ef-er-uh nt]
IPA: /ˈɛf ər ənt/

Efferent is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in efferent (eeeffnrt).

Definitions for efferent

adjective

  1. conveying or conducting away from an organ or part (opposed to afferent).

noun

  1. an efferent part, as a nerve or blood vessel.

Origin of efferent

1830-40; Latin efferent- (stem of efferēns carrying off, present participle of efferre), equivalent to ef- ef- + ferent- carrying (fer- carry + -ent- Examples for efferent

The boy who had had to stay in a therapy chair all his life because his efferent nerves could not control his body.

The gonads, as in other Arthropoda, are hollow saccular organs, the cavity communicating with the efferent ducts.

There are two divisions of nerves, the afferent and efferent.

The boy who had had to stay in a therapeutic chair all his life because his efferent nerves could not control his body.

The distal portions of the postcardinal veins form the efferent renal branches and the ascending trunks of the postcava.

The blood is collected from the walls of the gill-sacs by a series of efferent vessels which open into the dorsal aorta.

But the efferent ductules from the kidney gradually alter their points of entrance into the primitive duct.

Various accessory structures may be connected with the efferent ducts in both sexes.

They all have to use the efferent, especially the motor, nerves of the body.

This vesicle appears as a continuation of the Mllerian ducts, but receives a number of the efferent ductules of the kidneys.

Word Value for efferent
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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