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deafferents

deafferents is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 deafferents

What is deafferents the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Deafferents is the third-person singular simple present indicative of deafferent.

Words near deafferents in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deafferents (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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