1. deafferent - Adjective
2. deafferent - Verb
deafferent (not comparable)
Detached from the nervous system.
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.