Afferent

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