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  • adjective Having ganglia.

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  • adjective anatomy Furnished with ganglia.

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Examples

  • The gangliated trunks of the sympathetic usually enter the abdominal cavity behind the diaphragm, under the medial lumbocostal arches.

    IV. Myology. 6c. The Muscles of the Thorax 1918

  • No white rami communicantes are given to this part of the gangliated cord, but the visceral branches which arise from the third and fourth, and sometimes from the second, sacral, and run directly to the pelvic plexuses, are regarded as white rami communicantes.

    IX. Neurology. 7e. The Pelvic Portion of the Sympathetic System 1918

  • The sympathetic trunks (truncus sympathicus; gangliated cord) extend from the base of the skull to the coccyx.

    IX. Neurology. 7. The Sympathetic Nerves 1918

  • The three great gangliated plexuses (collateral ganglia) are situated in front of the vertebral column in the thoracic, abdominal, and pelvic regions, and are named, respectively, the cardiac, the solar or epigastric, and the hypogastric plexuses.

    IX. Neurology. 7. The Sympathetic Nerves 1918

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