sympathetic trunk

English

Noun

sympathetic trunk (plural sympathetic trunks)

  1. (anatomy) A string of ganglia running down each side of the spinal cord throughout most of its length, containing cell bodies of neurons that belong to the sympathetic nervous system and that project axons to muscles and glands.

Synonyms

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.