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deafferent

UK/diːˈæfəɹənt/

deafferent adjective: detached from the nervous system.

Adjective

deafferent (not comparable)

  1. Detached from the nervous system.

Verb

deafferent (third-person singular simple present deafferents, present participle deafferenting, simple past and past participle deafferented)

  1. (transitive) To detach from the nervous system.
    • The researchers deafferented the monkeys' limbs.

deafferent meaning in Bengali

deafferent in Bengali

স্নায়ুতন্ত্র থেকে বিচ্ছিন্ন, স্নায়ুতন্ত্র থেকে বিচ্ছিন্ন করা

Forms of deafferent

third-person singular presentdeafferents
present participledeafferenting
past participledeafferented
pastdeafferented

Origin of deafferent

From de- + afferent.

Questions about deafferent

What does deafferent mean?
Deafferent means detached from the nervous system.
What is deafferent in Bengali?
Deafferent in Bengali is স্নায়ুতন্ত্র থেকে বিচ্ছিন্ন, স্নায়ুতন্ত্র থেকে বিচ্ছিন্ন করা. See Deafferent meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is deafferent?
Deafferent can be an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce deafferent?
Deafferent is pronounced /diːˈæfəɹənt/ (UK).

Words near deafferent in the dictionary

  1. deafenings
  2. deafens
  3. deafer
  4. deafest
  5. deafferenation
  6. deafferent
  7. deafferentate
  8. deafferentated
  9. deafferentates
  10. deafferentating
  11. deafferentation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deafferent (page history and authors); deafferent (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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