Cervical sympathetic nerve trunk

System Nervous
SNOMED CT 280533000

Cervical sympathetic nerve trunk

Definition

The cervical ganglia are paravertebral ganglia of the sympathetic nervous system. These emerging postganglionic nerves synapse with preganglionic nerves from the thoracic spinal cord. They consist of three paravertebral ganglia: superior cervical ganglion middle cervical ganglion inferior cervical ganglion. The inferior ganglion may be fused with the first thoracic ganglion to form a single structure, the stellate ganglion. Nerves emerging from cervical sympathetic ganglia contribute to the cardiac plexus, among other things.

Also known as cervical part of sympathetic trunk, cervical sympathetic chain, cervical sympathetic trunk — per UBERON

The Cervical sympathetic nerve trunk is a part of the Nervous.

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