Affenthaler (afentaler)

[G. (sc. we in, wine): so called from the village Affenthal, in Baden.] A red wine made in Baden. It is one of the most esteemed of the Markgräfler wines. afferent (af'e-rent), a. [L. afferen ( t- )s, ppr. of afferre, adferre, carry to, Having arrived at this notion of an impulse travelling sory nerve as a nerve which, when active, brings an im along a nerve, we readily pa to the conception pulse to a central organ, or is afferent; and of a motor nerve, as a nerve which carries away an impulse from the organ, or is efferent. It is very convenient to use these terms to denote the two great cla es of nerves; for there are afferent nerves which are not sensory, while there may be in man, and certainly are in animals, effe rent nerves which are not motor, in the sense of inducing muscular contraction. Huxley , Physiol., p. 289.