Lumbar splanchnic nerves
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| Nerve: Lumbar splanchnic nerves | ||
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| Latin | nervi splanchnici lumbales | |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | n_05/12566685 | |
The lumbar splanchnic nerves arise from the lumbar part of the sympathetic trunk and travel to an adjacent plexus near the aorta.
These nerves contain preganglionic sympathetic and visceral afferent fibers.
[edit] External links
- Dictionary at eMedicine lumbar+splanchnic+nerves
- Human anatomy at Dartmouth figures/chapter_32/32-6.HTM
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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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