Ganglion
Clusters of neurons in the peripheral nervous system / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about neuron clusters. For other uses, see Ganglion (disambiguation).
"Ganglia" redirects here. For other uses, see Ganglia (disambiguation).
A ganglion (pl.: ganglia) is a group of neuron cell bodies in the peripheral nervous system. In the somatic nervous system, this includes dorsal root ganglia and trigeminal ganglia among a few others. In the autonomic nervous system, there are both sympathetic and parasympathetic ganglia which contain the cell bodies of postganglionic sympathetic and parasympathetic neurons respectively.
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Ganglion | |
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Details | |
System | Nervous system |
Identifiers | |
Latin | ganglion |
MeSH | D005724 |
TA98 | A14.2.00.002 |
FMA | 5884 |
Anatomical terminology |
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A pseudoganglion looks like a ganglion, but only has nerve fibers and has no nerve cell bodies.