#aferent

• Afferent — Relating directly to or dependent upon something else; in administration and finance, it describes connected or resulting costs and taxes. In legal terms, it means due or returning to someone. In anatomy, it denotes vessels or nerves carrying fluids or sensory impulses from the periphery toward a central organ or the brain.
• Afferentation — A foundational physiological process consisting of the continuous transmission of nerve impulses and excitations from peripheral receptor neurons to the central nervous system neurons and cerebral cortex.