Afferent vs. Centripetal — What's the Difference?

Conducting or conducted inwards or towards something (for nerves, the central nervous system; for blood vessels, the organ supplied).

Moving or tending to move towards a centre.

An afferent nerve fibre or vessel.

Moving or directed toward a center or axis.

Carrying inward to a central organ or section, as nerves that conduct impulses from the periphery of the body to the brain or spinal cord.

Operated by means of centripetal force.

Carrying towards.

(Physiology) Transmitting nerve impulses toward the central nervous system; afferent.

An afferent structure or connection

(Botany) Developing or progressing inward toward the center or axis, as in the head of a sunflower, in which the oldest flowers are near the edge and the youngest flowers are in the center.

Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; - opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the external organs to the brain.

Tending or directed toward centralization

Of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS;

Directed or moving towards a centre.

Of, relating to, or operated by centripetal force.

Directed towards the central nervous system; afferent.

Tending, or causing, to approach the center.

Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit.

Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone.

Tending to move toward a center;

Tending to unify

Of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system;