deafferent
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Adjective edit
deafferent (not comparable)
- Detached from the nervous system.
Verb edit
deafferent (third-person singular simple present deafferents, present participle deafferenting, simple past and past participle deafferented)
- (transitive) To detach from the nervous system.
- The researchers deafferented the monkeys' limbs.