Middle cervical ganglion
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| Nerve: Middle cervical ganglion | ||
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| Diagram of the cervical sympathetic. (Lower cervical ganglion labeled at center right.) | ||
| Latin | ganglion cervicale medium | |
| Gray's | subject #216 979 | |
| Innervates | Thyroid | |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | g_02/12384378 | |
The middle cervical ganglion is the smallest of the three cervical ganglia, and is occasionally absent.
It is placed opposite the sixth cervical vertebra, usually in front of, or close to, the inferior thyroid artery.
It is probably formed by the coalescence of two ganglia corresponding to the fifth and sixth cervical nerves.
It sends gray rami communicantes to the fifth and sixth cervical nerves, and gives off the middle cardiac nerve.
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| Autonomic nervous system |
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| sympathetic nervous system: sympathetic trunks (white ramus communicans, gray ramus communicans) - collateral ganglia cavernous plexus - cervical ganglia: (superior, middle, inferior) - splanchnic nerves: (thoracic, lumbar, sacral) - ganglion impar celiac: celiac ganglia - aorticorenal - renal - spermatic/ovarian - superior mesenteric - aortic plexus - inferior mesenteric - hepatic - splenic - gastric - pancreatic - suprarenal hypogastric: superior hypogastric - inferior hypogastric - vesical - prostatic - uterovaginal parasympathetic nervous system: ciliary ganglion (short ciliary nerves) - pterygopalatine ganglion (nerve of pterygoid canal) - submandibular ganglion - otic ganglion - pelvic splanchnic |
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