| Nerve: Renal plexus | |
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| The celiac ganglia with the sympathetic plexuses of the abdominal viscera radiating from the ganglia. (Renal plexus labeled at center right.) | |
| Plan of right sympathetic cord and splanchnic nerves. (Renal plexus labeled at bottom center.) | |
| Latin | plexus renalis |
| Gray's | subject #220 987 |
The renal plexus is formed by filaments from the celiac plexus, the aorticorenal ganglion, and the aortic plexus .
It is joined also by the least splanchnic nerve.
The nerves from these sources, fifteen or twenty in number, have a few ganglia developed upon them.
They accompany the branches of the renal artery into the kidney; some filaments are distributed to the spermatic plexus and, on the right side, to the inferior vena cava.
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