noun an efferent duct or stream.
2. efferent ·adj conveying outward, or discharging;
applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, ·etc.
3. efferent ·adj conveyed outward; as, efferent impulses, ·i.e., such as are conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards;
opposed to afferent.