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Efferent vs Centrifugal - What's the difference?

efferent | centrifugal |

As adjectives the difference between efferent and centrifugal

is that efferent is carrying away from while centrifugal is tending, or causing, to recede from the center.

As a noun efferent

is a duct or stream that carries away.

efferent

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Carrying away from.
    • An efferent nerve carries impulses from the brain to the body.
  • Carried outward.
    • Efferent impulses are those conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards.

    Antonyms

    * afferent

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A duct or stream that carries away.

    • External links

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    centrifugal

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia centrifugal) (-)
  • Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
  • (botany) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
  • (botany) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.

    • Antonyms

    * centripetal

    Derived terms

    * centrifugal force

    References

    * * centrifugal] ''[http://oxforddictionaries.com/ Oxford Dictionaries on-line, Oxford University Press, 2012.