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8 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands
adjective of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS
originFrom Latin efferēns, present active participle of efferō (“bring or carry out”), from ē (“out of”), short form of ex, + ferō (“carry, bear”). By surface analysis, ef- + -fer + -ent.
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