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Parasympathetic Sympathetic
Preganglionic Postganglionic
CNS nerve fiber Ganglion nerve fiber
Target
cell
NN Sym
Preganglionic
CNS nerve fiber Ganglion N
Postganglionic nerve fiber NE
ACh N
NN Target cell
NN Sym
Preganglionic
CNS nerve fiber Ganglion N
Postganglionic nerve fiber NE
ACh N
⍺, ℬ
NN Target cell
Sym
ACh
M
Target cell
Berly Ruiz Orbezo, univer_10@hotmail.com
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Parasympathetic (Craniosacral) System
Nerves Conveying Output
• CN III
• CN VII
• CN IX
• CN X
• Lesser
• Least
• Lumbar
• Pelvic
• Lesser
• Least
• Lumbar
• Pelvic
• Lesser
• Least
• Lumbar
• Pelvic
• Lesser
• Least
• Lumbar
• Pelvic
• Lesser
• Least
• Lumbar
• Pelvic
Spinal nerve
Sympathetic trunk
1 Anterior
2
6
nerve root
1
3 3
4
5
White ramus
communicans
Sympathetic
7
ganglion
Gray ramus communicans
Henry Vandyke Carter
Berly Ruiz[Public domain],
Orbezo, via Wikimedia Commons
univer_10@hotmail.com 4
Sympathetic
ganglion
• Hypothalamus
X
• Characterized by the three – osis
X
X
• Ptosis – drooping upper eyelid
X
X
• Miosis – constricted pupil
X
A commonly examined scenario is
X
where Horner's syndrome can X
present in a Pancoast lung tumor – X
its metastatic spread can invade the X
sympathetic chain and cause this
syndrome.
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