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Efferent arteries take blood away from an organ and afferent arteries bring blood to an organ.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoThe terms, afferent and efferent, refer to nerves. However, if applied to the circulatory system, the afferent vessels would be veins and the efferent vessels would be arteries.
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What condition is indicated by the structural difference between systemic and pulmonary arteries?
Elatic recoil.
What is the difference between coronary arteries and vessels?
When people use the word vessel in relation to the cardiovascular system, they usually are referring to blood vessels like arteries, veins, or capillaries. Coronary arteries are specific blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood to the muscles (myocardium) of the heart.
What is the difference between an anatomic end artery and a functional end artery?
anatomic end arteries are vessels whose terminal branches donot anastomose with branches of arteries supplying adjacent areas . Functional end arteries are vessels whose terminal branches do anastomose with those of adjacent arteries , but the caliber of anastomoses is insufficient to keep the tissue alive should one of the arteries become occluded .
What is the difference between elastic arteries muscular arteries and arterioles relative to location histology and functional adaptation?
Elastic (conducting) arteries are the large arteries close to the heart that expand during systole, acting as pressure reservoirs, and then recoil during diastole to keep blood moving. Muscular (distributing) arteries carry blood to specific organs; they are less stretchy and more active in vasoconstriction. Arterioles regulate blood flow into capillary beds.
What is the difference between blood pressure and heart rate?
Blood pressure is the pressure exerted on the wall of arteries and veins. Heart rate is the BPM or beats per minute.
Difference between afferent and efferent in kidney?
Efferent means going away from and afferent is going toward. The afferent arteriole of the kidney carrys blood toward the glomerulus, whereas the efferent arteriole carrys blood away from the glomerulus.
What is the difference between the efferent and the efferent neurons?
they don't have a difference Unless you are talking about the direction of their signal. Afferent is taking information toward the central nervous system while efferent is taking information away from the central nervous system.
What is the difference between afferent and efferent pathways?
The major difference is the direction of travel for nerve impulses. In the afferent nervous system, the impulses are traveling away from the brain - these tend to be motor impulses. In the efferent nervous system, the impulses are traveling towards the brain - these tend to be sensory impulses.
What is the difference between afferent and efferent duct?
Afferent means going towards a center, in this case, a vessel going towards a lymph node. Efferent means going away from center, in this case, these are vessels associated with the thymus and spleen. A vessel can be both afferent and efferent if it leaves a peripheral lymph node (where it's efferent to the node) and connects to a greater node, where it becomes an afferent vessel as it enters the greater node or a lymphatic duct.
What vascular structure is found between the afferent and efferent arterioles?
peritubular capillaries
What Blood vessel located between afferent and efferent arterioles?
Glomerulus capillary
Functional difference between a motor and a relay neuron?
Motor neurons are the efferent neuron which carry impulses from CNS to muscles while relay neurons also known as Inter neurons connect both afferent and efferent neurons.
What type of neuron is also called an interneurn because it carries messages between the other two types of neurons Associative Afferent Efferent?
Efferent
What is the difference between afferent and efferent nerve fibers?
Afferent refers to pathways leading to the cortex (ie, sensory). Efferent are pathways leading away (ie, motor). You are *affected* by a situation, you *effect* change on someone else.
What is a braun enteroenterostomy?
A surgical procedure in which a connection is created between the afferent and efferent limbs of small bowel in a patient that previously had a Billroth II procedure. It is performed to relieve afferent limb syndrome.
Carries impulses between spinal cord and body parts?
CENTRAL
What is the difference between a simple spinal reflex and a complex reaction?
Simple spinal reflex is when the afferent receptor synapses directly with an efferent neuron and subsequently an effector cell/tissue. This will all take place in the spinal cord. A complex reaction will involve an intermediary interneuron or even the brain for 'processing' before synapsing with an efferent neuron and target tissue.
