Middle cervical ganglion

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Nerve: Middle cervical ganglion
Diagram of the cervical sympathetic. (Lower cervical ganglion labeled at center right.)
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Latin	ganglion cervicale medium
Gray's	subject #216 979
Innervates	thyroid
From	middle cardiac nerve
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MeSH	[1]

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.

[edit] See also

• Middle cardiac nerve

[edit] External links

• GPnotebook 2006581307
• Norman/Georgetown thoraxlesson4 (thoraxautonomicner)

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sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system HEAD/parasympathetic ganglion: ciliary ganglion (short ciliary nerves) - pterygopalatine ganglion (nerve of pterygoid canal) - submandibular ganglion - otic ganglion NECK: cavernous plexus - cervical ganglia: (superior, middle, inferior), stellate ganglion, internal carotid THORAX: thoracic splanchnic nerves, cardiac plexus, superior cardiac nerve, middle cardiac nerve, inferior cardiac nerve sympathetic trunks (white ramus communicans, gray ramus communicans) - collateral ganglia - sympathetic ganglion ABDOMEN: inferior mesenteric - hepatic - splenic - gastric - pancreatic - suprarenal hypogastric: superior hypogastric - inferior hypogastric - vesical - prostatic - uterovaginal, lumbar splanchnic, sacral splanchnic, celiac: celiac ganglia - aorticorenal - renal - spermatic/ovarian - superior mesenteric - aortic plexus Enteric nervous system: Meissner's plexus • Auerbach's plexus PELVIS: ganglion impar, pelvic splanchnic

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