Afferent may refer to:

Anatomical structures

Meaning "conveying towards a center": * Afferent arterioles, blood vessels that supply the nephrons * Afferent lymphatic vessels, lymph vessels that carry lymph to a lymph node *

Afferent nerve fiber Afferent nerve fibers are the axons (nerve fibers) carried by a sensory nerve that relay sensory information from sensory receptors to regions of the brain. Afferent projections ''arrive'' at a particular brain region. Efferent nerve fibers a ...

, an axonal projection that ''arrives'' at a particular region

Other uses

* Afferent couplings, in software, classes in other packages that depend upon classes within a given package

Anatomical structures

Other uses

See also