Peripheral nervous system

System Nervous
SNOMED CT 362292005

Peripheral nervous system

Definition

A major division of the nervous system that contains nerves which connect the central nervous system (CNS) with sensory organs, other organs, muscles, blood vessels and glands.

Also known as pars peripherica, systema nervosum periphericum — per UBERON

The Peripheral nervous system is a part of the Nervous.

Also identified as

Associated Diseases

Disease Involvement Source
Epithelioid neurofibroma Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Epithelioid neurofibroma Disease Has Primary Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Extra-adrenal sympathetic paraganglioma Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy Disease Has Primary Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy 1 Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy 1 Disease Has Primary Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy 2 Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy 2 Disease Has Primary Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Ganglioneuroma Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Ganglioneuroma Disease Has Primary Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Glossopharyngeal motor neuropathy Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Glossopharyngeal motor neuropathy Disease Has Primary Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Granular cell cancer Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Granular cell cancer Disease Has Primary Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Guillain-Barré syndrome Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Guillain-Barré syndrome Disease Has Primary Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Head and neck paraganglioma Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Hemangioma of peripheral nerve Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Hemangioma of peripheral nerve Disease Has Primary Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type 4 Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type 7 Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Intraneural perineurioma Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Jugulotympanic paraganglioma Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome Disease Has Primary Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy Disease Has Primary Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Lumbar plexus neoplasm Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Malignant adrenal gland pheochromocytoma Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Malignant adrenal gland pheochromocytoma Disease Has Primary Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Malignant cardiac peripheral nerve sheath neoplasm Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Malignant cardiac peripheral nerve sheath neoplasm Disease Has Primary Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Malignant carotid body paraganglioma Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Malignant carotid body paraganglioma Disease Has Primary Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Malignant gastric granular cell tumor Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Malignant gastric granular cell tumor Disease Has Primary Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Malignant glandular tumor of peripheral nerve sheath Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Malignant glandular tumor of peripheral nerve sheath Disease Has Primary Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Malignant jugulotympanic paraganglioma Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Malignant jugulotympanic paraganglioma Disease Has Primary Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Malignant melanocytic neoplasm of the peripheral nerve sheath Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Malignant melanocytic neoplasm of the peripheral nerve sheath Disease Has Primary Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Malignant melanocytic peripheral nerve sheath tumor of mediastinum Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Malignant melanocytic peripheral nerve sheath tumor of mediastinum Disease Has Primary Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor Disease Has Primary Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Malignant triton tumor Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Malignant triton tumor Disease Has Primary Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0
Mediastinal melanocytic neurilemmoma Disease Has Associated Anatomic Site NCIT · CC BY 4.0

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Drugs Acting Here

Drug Effect Source
Amifampridine may treat a disease of this organ DERIVED · CC BY 4.0
Cyclophosphamide may treat a disease of this organ DERIVED · CC BY 4.0
Cyclosporine may treat a disease of this organ DERIVED · CC BY 4.0
Deflazacort may treat a disease of this organ DERIVED · CC BY 4.0
Eculizumab may treat a disease of this organ DERIVED · CC BY 4.0
Efgartigimod Alfa may treat a disease of this organ DERIVED · CC BY 4.0
Givinostat may treat a disease of this organ DERIVED · CC BY 4.0
Mirdametinib may treat a disease of this organ DERIVED · CC BY 4.0
Neostigmine may treat a disease of this organ DERIVED · CC BY 4.0
Nipocalimab may treat a disease of this organ DERIVED · CC BY 4.0
Zilucoplan may treat a disease of this organ DERIVED · CC BY 4.0

11 entries above are marked DERIVED: Atlas Médico inferred them by combining two sourced claims, and no source asserts these links directly. Treat them as a navigation aid, not as a clinical statement.