Afferent may refer to:
Anatomical structures
Meaning "conveying towards a center":
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Afferent arterioles
The afferent arterioles are a group of blood vessels that supply the nephrons in many excretory systems. They play an important role in the regulation of blood pressure as a part of the tubuloglomerular feedback mechanism.
The afferent arteriole ...
, blood vessels that supply the nephrons
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Afferent lymphatic vessels
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 to a lymph node
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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
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Afferent couplings
Various software package metrics are used in modular programming. They have been mentioned by Robert Cecil Martin in his 2002 book ''Agile software development: principles, patterns, and practices''.
The term software package here refers to a gr ...
, in software, classes in other packages that depend upon classes within a given package
See also
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Efferent (disambiguation)
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