Afferent may refer to:
Anatomical structures
Meaning "conveying towards a center":
- Afferent arterioles, blood vessels that supply the nephrons
- Afferent lymphatic vessels, lymph vessels that carry lymph to a lymph node
- Afferent nerve fiber, an axonal projection that arrives at a particular region
Other uses
- Afferent couplings, in software, classes in other packages that depend upon classes within a given package
See also
- Efferent (disambiguation)