Afferent nerve fiber

Afferent nerve fiber
Afferent nerve fiber
	Afferent nerve fibers transmit information from the peripheral to the central nervous system.
Details
System	Nervous system
Identifiers
Latin	neurofibrae afferentes
TA98	A14.2.00.017
TH	H2.00.06.1.00015
FMA	76570
	Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

Afferent nerve fibers are axons (nerve fibers) of sensory neurons that carry sensory information from sensory receptors to the central nervous system. Many afferent projections arrive at a particular brain region.

In the peripheral nervous system, afferent nerve fibers are part of the sensory nervous system and arise from outside of the central nervous system. Sensory and mixed nerves contain afferent fibers.