Medical Definition of Smallest splanchnic nerve
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One of the abdominopelvic splanchnic nerves arising in the thorax and penetrating the diaphragm to supply presynaptic sympathetic fibres for the renal plexus; often combined with the lesser splanchnic nerve, but occasionally existing as an independent nerve.
Synonym: nervus splanchnicus imus, smallest splanchnic nerve.
(05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smallest Splanchnic Nerve
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