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afferent/sensory neurons
afferent neurons
Afferent neurons receive and transmit impulses to the CNS.
Afferent neurons are those that transmit signals from sensory transducers to the central nervous system (i.e., the spinal cord and the brain). The complementary group of neurons are the efferent neurons that transmit signals from the central nervous system to effectors, that generate a response to the environmental input.
Signals are transmitted through the spinal cord and brain via neurons.
nervous tissue.
These are called efferent neurons. The one that carry impulses away are afferent. Afferent (A) are away (A).
Afferent
The nerves that carry impulses toward the brain are called efferent nerves. Afferent nerves carry impulses away. In way to remember this is afferent equals away.
Afferent neurons do this. Efferent do the opposite. It does not matter which system the neurons belong to i.e. Automonic vs. sympathetic. This is a general definition of the direction which nerve impulses are conducting. Afferent nerves are more commonly but less accurately known as sensory nerves.
afferent neurons
Afferent neurons (sensory)