pelvic ganglia

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• ganglia pelvica — [TA] pelvic ganglia: small sympathetic and parasympathetic ganglia located within the pelvic plexus …   Medical dictionary

• Pelvic splanchnic nerves — Nerve: Pelvic splanchnic nerves Latin nervi pelvici splanchnici nervi erigentes From S2 S4 Pelvic splanchnic nerves or nervi erigentes are splanchnic nerves that arise from sacral spinal nerves S2, S3, S4 to provide parasympathetic innervation to …   Wikipedia

• Prevertebral ganglia — Abdominal portion of the sympathetic trunk, with the celiac plexus and hypogastric plexus …   Wikipedia

• Celiac ganglia — Nerve: Celiac ganglia The celiac ganglia with the sympathetic plexuses of the abdominal viscera radiating from the ganglia. (Celiac ganglion labeled at center right.) …   Wikipedia

• Cervical ganglia — Nerve: Cervical ganglia Diagram of the cervical sympathetic. Gray s subject #216 978 The cervical ganglia are paravertebral ganglia of the …   Wikipedia

• Ganglion — The celebrated 2nd century Greek physician Galen ((c. 130 201 A.D.) who lived and worked in Rome first used the word ganglion to denote a nerve complex. Ganglion still is used to refer to an aggregation of nerve cell bodies. Another use of the… …   Medical dictionary

• Outline of human anatomy — See also: Index of anatomy related articles Human anatomy, a branch of anatomy, is the scientific study of the morphology of the adult human. It is subdivided into gross anatomy and microscopic anatomy. Gross anatomy (also called topographical… …   Wikipedia

• Nerve — A bundle of fibers that uses electrical and chemical signals to transmit sensory and motor information from one body part to another. See nervous system. * * * A whitish cordlike structure composed of one or more bundles (fascicles) of myelinated …   Medical dictionary

• radix parasympathica gangliorum pelvicorum — [TA] parasympathetic root of pelvic ganglia: origin, sacral plexus—S3–S4; distribution, leaving the sacral plexus, they enter the inferior hypogastric plexus and supply the pelvic organs; modality, preganglionic parasympathetic and visceral… …   Medical dictionary

• root — 1. The primary or beginning portion of any part, as of a nerve at its origin from the brainstem or spinal cord. SYN: radix (1) [TA]. 2. SYN: r. of tooth. 3. The descending underground …   Medical dictionary

• nervous system, human — ▪ anatomy Introduction       system that conducts stimuli from sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord and that conducts impulses back to other parts of the body. As with other higher vertebrates, the human nervous system has two main… …   Universalium