Medical Definition of Lesser splanchnic nerve
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One of the abdominopelvic splanchnic nerves arising in the thorax from the last two thoracic sympathetic ganglia and passing through the diaphragm to the aorticorenal ganglion; conveys presynaptic sympathetic fibres and visceral afferent fibres.
Synonym: nervus splanchnicus minor.
(05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lesser Splanchnic Nerve
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