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deafferenting

deafferenting is the present participle and gerund of deafferent.

Meaning of deafferent

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.

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Questions about deafferenting

What is deafferenting the present participle and gerund of?
Deafferenting is the present participle and gerund of deafferent.

Words near deafferenting in the dictionary

  1. deafferentating
  2. deafferentation
  3. deafferentations
  4. deafferented
  5. deafferentiated
  6. deafferenting
  7. deafferents
  8. deafforest
  9. deafforestation
  10. deafforestations
  11. deafforested

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deafferenting (page history and authors); deafferent (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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