Efferent nerve fiber

Alright, let's imagine you're playing a game of tag with your friend. You're running around trying to tag your friend, but your friend is pretty quick and it's hard to catch them. Suddenly, you hear someone yelling "freeze!" - it's your mom or dad coming to tell you that it's time to come inside and stop playing.

When your mom or dad tells you to freeze and come inside, they're using their voice and their words to send a message from their brain to their mouth and vocal cords, which then produce the sound that you hear. This message travels along a special type of nerve called an efferent nerve fiber, which carries signals from the brain to different parts of the body.

In the case of your mom or dad telling you to come inside, the efferent nerve fiber carries the message from the brain to the mouth and vocal cords, telling them to make a sound. But efferent nerve fibers can also carry signals to other parts of the body, like your muscles or your organs.

So next time you hear someone telling you what to do, just remember that it took a special type of nerve called an efferent nerve fiber to carry that message from their brain to their body.