| NOUN | body | efferent nerve, motor nerve, efferent | a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands |
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| Meaning | A nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands. | |
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| Synonyms | motor nerve, efferent | |
| Parts | motor fiber, efferent fiber | A nerve fiber that carries impulses toward the muscles or glands |
| motor neuron, efferent neuron, motor nerve fiber, motoneuron | A neuron conducting impulses outwards from the brain or spinal cord | |
| Narrower | pyramidal tract, pyramidal motor system, corticospinal tract | Any of the important motor nerves on each side of the central nervous system that run from the sensorimotor areas of the cortex through the brainstem to motor neurons of the cranial nerve nuclei and the ventral root of the spinal cord |
| ventral root, ventral horn, anterior root, anterior horn | One of two the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers | |
| Broader | nerve, nervus | Any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body |
| Spanish | eferente, nervio motor | |
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