Sentences with phrase «called efferent»

It's this so - called efferent or respiratory phase that consists of eye closing, sudden uncontrollable deep in - breath, and then blowing out air while closing the throat and increasing air pressure in the chest.

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In vertebrates, motor neurons (also called motoneurons) are efferent neurons that originate in the spinal cord and synapse with muscle fibers to facilitate muscle contraction and with muscle spindles to modify proprioceptive sensitivity.

The efferent nerves are called alpha motor neurons.

When the central nervous system sends a signal (called neural drive) down the efferent nerves to the neuromuscular junction, this causes an action potential to propagate along the muscle fiber, leading to depolarization.