Kwashiorkor designates a specific type of malnutrition -- that of not getting nearly enough protein. Although kwashiorkor is very rare in Americans, up to half of the nationâs elderly population may be at risk for it.
conferee. 1  a person on whom something is conferred, especially the recipient of an academic degree. 2  a person, group, etc., that confers or takes part in a conference.
1. bringing to or leading toward an organ or part, as a nerve or arteriole (opposed to efferent). 2. a nerve that conveys an impulse toward the central nervous system. afferent-, s. of afferÄns, present participle of afferre to bring, deliver = af-af - + ferre to bear 1 ].afâ²ferâ¢entâ¢ly, adv.(Äfâ²Ér-Ént).oun. 1. afferent-a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system. afferent nerve, sensory nerve. dorsal horn, dorsal root-one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally to the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers.