Efferent may refer to:

Anatomical structures

Meaning 'conveying away from a center': *

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 *

Efferent nerve fiber Efferent nerve fibers are axons (nerve fibers) of efferent neurons that exit a particular region. These terms have a slightly different meaning in the context of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and central nervous system (CNS). The efferen ...

, carries nerve impulses away from the central nervous system toward the peripheral effector organs *

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 *

Efferent ducts The efferent ducts (also efferent ductules, ductuli efferentes, 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: * a ...

, connect the rete testis with the initial section of the epididymis

Other uses

* Efferent coupling, a metric in software development

Anatomical structures

Other uses

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