EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Efferent, or motor, neurons transmit impulses from the CNS to effector organs such as muscles and glands. Efferent neurons usually have short dendrites and long axons.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sensory neurons bring signals into the CNS, and motor neurons carry signals out of the CNS.

Detailed explanation-3: -Afferent neurons carry information from sensory receptors of the skin and other organs to the central nervous system (i.e., brain and spinal cord), whereas efferent neurons carry motor information away from the central nervous system to the muscles and glands of the body.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Spinal Cord Transmits Signals to and from the Brain and Commands Reflexes. The spinal cord is an elongated cylinder of neuron cell bodies, bundles of axons and other cells, protected by connective tissue and bone.

Detailed explanation-5: -The efferent fiber is a long process projecting far from the neuron’s body that carries nerve impulses away from the central nervous system toward the peripheral effector organs (mainly muscles and glands). A bundle of these fibers is called an efferent nerve (if it connects to muscles, then it is a motor nerve).