Hyphenation of afferent

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word afferent? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

af-fer-ent

Definitions of afferent:

1.	A nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system
2.	Of nerves and nerve impulses Conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS Afferent nerves Afferent impulses

Synonyms of afferent:

adj	afferent, centripetal, receptive, sensory, corticoafferent, corticipetal

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