afferent

[Lat. afferens, pr. par. of affero =to bear or carry: ad to, and fero = to bear.] Phys. Bringing to, conducting to, as opposed to efferent = bearing or conducting away from. [EFFERENT.] these ve els being styled afferent as they enter the gland, and efferent as they leave it."-Todd & Bowman : Physiol. Anat . , ii. 274. "The terms offer ent and afferent are only so far applicable to certain nerves, as they refer to the direetion in which such nerves appear to propagate the change produced in them, or to the position at which the effects of the stimulation become manifest, that direction having reference to the point at which the stimulus is designed to act."- Ibid . , p. 231. "Of these fibres, some are afferent , or incident, others efferent , or reflex; and these two kinds have an immediate but unknown relation to each other, so that each afferent nerve has its proper efferent one, the former being being excitor and and the latter motor.". Ibid . , pp. 322-8. *af-fe'ris, af-fë'irs, impersonal v.i. [O. Fr. affiert , impers. v. belongs to, from Lat. affert , 3rd sing. pres. ind, of affero = to bring to: ad = to, and fero = to bring.] ( Scotch .) 107 1. Becomes, belongs to, is proper or ex pedient. "I sall als frely in all thing Hald it, as it afferis to king." Barbour, 1. 162, MS. (Jamie son.) 2. Is proportionate, corresponds. great sums affeiring to their condition and Act Council rank, ad quality of their crimes." (1080). ( Wodrow, iL. 3,181.) *af-fèrm', v.1. [AFFIRM.] *af-ferm'-id, pa . par . [AFFIRMED.] af-fër-or, af-feer-or, s. [From A.N. affeurer to tax, a e , moderate.] [AFFEER.] Law: One appointed in court leets, and sometimes elsewhere, to act with others in deciding upon oath what amount of penalty should be inflicted on any one who has committed an offence to which no precise punishment is attached, but the amount of which is left to be settled when all the circumstances are taken into account.