AFFERENT

The term, in Anatomy, applied to those lymphatic ve els which enter the lymphatic glands, subdivide, and form tortuous plexuses therein, whence other ve els proceed, converge, and unite into two or more efferent ve els which are larger than the afferent ones, and proceed towards the main trunk called " thoracic duct." The term c^erent has also been applied to tliose nerves which convey impre ions to the central axis, and which Hartley called "sensory" nerves, in contradistinction to the efferent or " motory " 116rVGS. [s. 1363]