Centripetal vs Axipetal - What's the difference?
centripetal | axipetal | Synonyms |
directed or moving towards a centre
of, relating to, or operated by centripetal force
(neuroanatomy, of a nerve impulse) directed towards the central nervous system; afferent
(chiefly, physics) Tending toward the center or axis
* {{quote-book, year=2000, author=Louis Lliboutry, title=Quantitative Geophysics and Geology, page=140, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=C7rny3qA6RMC&pg=PA140
, passage=In a Galilean frame of reference, any point fixed relative to the Earth has an axipetal acceleration (ie directed toward the world's axis following the shortest distance, which is the perpendicular), of value ?2(r'' sin ''? ). }}
(physiology, dated) Seeking the axon
* {{quote-book, year=1905, title=Handbook of Physiology, author=William Senhouse Kirkes, page=204, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=y-X2HiYlip8C&pg=PA204
, passage=A general law has been laid down by van Gehuchten and Cajal, that all nerve impulses are axipetal , that is, they pass towards the attachment of the axon, by which they leave the body of the cell.}}
