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Efferent

Conveying outward, or discharging; -- applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc.

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Centrifugal 84% connected

Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.

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Centrifugal 84% connected

Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.

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Motor 84% connected

One who, or that which, imparts motion; a source of mechanical power.

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Motor 84% connected

One who, or that which, imparts motion; a source of mechanical power.

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Nerve 76% connected

One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various pa…

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Motorial 92% connected

Causing or setting up motion; pertaining to organs of motion; -- applied especially in physiology to those nerves or nerve fibers which only convey i…

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Afferent 94% connected

Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the ext…

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Afferent 94% connected

Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the ext…

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Absorbent noun · 78% connection

The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.

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Aesthesodic adjective · 78% connection

Conveying sensory or afferent impulses; -- said of nerves.

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Air vessel unknown · 78% connection

A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pu…

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Ambulacrum noun · 78% connection

One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bea…

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Anastomosis noun · 78% connection

The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries…

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Angiography noun · 78% connection

A description of blood vessels and lymphatics.

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Angiology noun · 78% connection

That part of anatomy which treats of blood vessels and lymphatics.

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Angiotomy noun · 78% connection

Dissection of the blood vessels and lymphatics of the body.

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Blood pressure noun · 78% connection

the pressure of the circulating blood against the walls of the blood vessels; results from the systole of the left ventricle of the he…

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Bond noun · 78% connection

A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…

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Capillary noun · 78% connection

A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smal…

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Costal groove noun · 78% connection

groove between the ribs where the nerves and blood vessels are

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Detrusion noun · 78% connection

The act of thrusting or driving down or outward; outward thrust.

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Diapedesis noun · 78% connection

The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls…

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Discharger noun · 78% connection

One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, b…

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Endothelium noun · 78% connection

The thin epithelium lining the blood vessels, lymphatics, and serous cavities. See Epithelium.

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Epithelium noun · 78% connection

The superficial layer of cells lining the alimentary canal and all its appendages, all glands and their ducts, blood vessels and lymph…

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Esodic adjective · 78% connection

Conveying impressions from the surface of the body to the spinal cord; -- said of certain nerves. Opposed to exodic.

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