Efferent may refer to:
Anatomical structures
Meaning 'conveying away from a center':
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Efferent arterioles
The efferent arterioles are blood vessels that are part of the urinary tract of organisms. Efferent (from Latin ex + ferre) means "outgoing", in this case meaning carrying blood out away from the glomerulus. The efferent arterioles form a converg ...
, conveying blood away from the Bowman's capsule in the kidney
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Efferent nerve fiber
Efferent nerve fibers refer to axonal projections that ''exit'' a particular region; as opposed to afferent projections that ''arrive'' at the region. These terms have a slightly different meaning in the context of the peripheral nervous syste ...
, carries nerve impulses away from the central nervous system toward the peripheral effector organs
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Efferent lymph vessel
The lymphatic vessels (or lymph vessels or lymphatics) are thin-walled vessels (tubes), structured like blood vessels, that carry lymph. As part of the lymphatic system, lymph vessels are complementary to the cardiovascular system. Lymph vessel ...
, lymph vessels that carry lymph from a lymph node
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Efferent ducts
The efferent ducts (or efferent ductules or ductuli efferentes or ductus efferentes or vasa efferentia) connect the rete testis with the initial section of the epididymis.Hess 2018
There are two basic designs for efferent ductule structure:
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, connect the rete testis with the initial section of the epididymis
Other uses
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Efferent coupling
Efferent coupling is a coupling metric in software development. It measures the number of data types a class knows about.
This includes inheritance, interface implementation, parameter types, variable types, and exceptions.
This has also been ...
, a metric in software development
See also
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Afferent (disambiguation)
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