Afferent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Afferent is an anatomical term with the following meanings: Conveying towards a center, for example the afferent arterioles conveying blood towards the Bowman's capsule in the ...
Efferent nerve fiber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In the nervous system, efferent nerves, otherwise known as motor or effector neurons, carry nerve impulses away from the central nervous system to effectors such as muscles or ...
Afferent nerve fiber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In the nervous system, afferent neurons (otherwise known as sensory or receptor neurons), carry nerve impulses from receptors or sense organs towards the central nervous system.
Efferent arteriole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The efferent arterioles are blood vessels that are part of the urinary tract of organisms. The efferent arterioles form from a convergence of the capillaries of the glomerulus.
Afferent arterioles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 ...
Glomerulus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In the kidney, a tubular structure called the nephron filters blood to form urine. At the beginning of the nephron, the glomerulus /ɡlohˈmerələss/ is a network (tuft) of ...
Nephron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nephron (from Greek νεφρός - nephros, meaning "kidney") is the basic structural and functional unit of the kidney. Its chief function is to regulate the concentration of ...
Dorsal root ganglion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In anatomy and neuroscience, a dorsal root ganglion (or spinal ganglion) is a nodule on a dorsal root that contains cell bodies of neurons in afferent spinal nerves.