afferent
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These again split to form cortical radiate arteries that radiate out and branch into many afferent arterioles that enter the capillaries supplying the nephrons.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The cortical radiate arteries branch into numerous afferent arterioles, and then enter the capillaries supplying the nephrons.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Thus, action potentials transmitted over a sensory receptor’s afferent axons encode one type of stimulus, and this segregation of the senses is preserved in other sensory circuits.
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Efferent synapses occur on outer hair cells and on afferent dendrites under inner hair cells.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The lesions of the arteriosclerotic kidney are due to narrowing and eventual obstruction of the afferent vessels.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
