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noun a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system
adjective of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS
originFrom Latin adferens (“bringing to”), present participle of adferre (“to bring to”), from ad (“to, toward”) + ferre (“to carry, bear”). By surface analysis, af- + -fer + -ent.
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