Enteric plexus

System Nervous

Enteric plexus

Definition

A plexus of autonomic nerve fibers within the wall of the digestive tube, and made up of the submucosal, myenteric, and subserosal plexuses; it contains visceral afferent fibers, sympathetic postganglionic fibers, parasympathetic preganglionic and postganglionic fibers, and parasympathetic postganglionic cell bodies.

Also known as enteric nerve plexus, intrinsic nerve plexus, plexus entericus, plexus nervosus entericus, sympathetic enteric nerve plexus — per UBERON

The Enteric plexus is a part of the Nervous.