Definition of Autonomic ganglion

1. Noun. Any of the ganglia of the autonomic system whose unmyelinated fibers innervate the internal organs.

Generic synonyms: Ganglion
Specialized synonyms: Otic Ganglion, Otoganglion
Group relationships: Ans, Autonomic Nervous System

Lexicographical Neighbors of Autonomic Ganglion

automounting
automounts
automous
automysophobia
auton
autonomasia
autonomasy
autonomation
autonomations
autonomic
autonomic agents
autonomic denervation
autonomic disorder
autonomic epilepsy
autonomic ganglia
autonomic ganglion (current term)
autonomic hyperreflexia
autonomic imbalance
autonomic motor neuron
autonomic motor neurons
autonomic nerve
autonomic nerve block
autonomic nervous system
autonomic nervous system diseases
autonomic neurogenic bladder
autonomic neuropathy
autonomic nuclei
autonomic part
autonomic pathways
autonomic plexus

Literary usage of Autonomic ganglion

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Anatomy and Physiology for Nurses by Percy Millard Dawson (1917)
"Diagram of autonomic ganglion showing how the impulses coming by way of a single preganglionic fiber, A, may be distributed and through connections with ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1914)
"First, the cell in the spinal cord giving rise to the preganglionic fiber; secondly, the synapse in the autonomic ganglion, including both the ganglion cell ..."

3. The Autonomic Functions and the Personality by Edward John Kempf (1921)
"As the spinal cord evolves, the peripheral autonomic ganglion colonies emigrate from the spinal cord segments. The autonomic centers within the cord and, ..."

4. Health, Public and Personal by Ralph Earl Blount (1922)
"... the cord and brain, and currents from the brain to the cord and thence to a muscle or to an autonomic ganglion, from which it goes to a gland or muscle. ..."

5. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1918)
"As the spinal cord evolves, the peripheral autonomic ganglion colonies emigrate from the spinal cord segments. The autonomic centers within the cord and, ..."

6. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"Large doses of the ft haloid paralyze nerve structures in the following order: (1) sympathetic ganglion cells, (2) other autonomic ganglion cells, ..."

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