Middle cervical ganglion

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Nerve: Middle cervical ganglion

Diagram of the cervical sympathetic. (Lower cervical ganglion labeled at center right.)
Latin	ganglion cervicale medium
Gray's	subject #216 979
Innervates	thyroid
From	middle cardiac nerve
Dorlands/Elsevier	g_02/12384378

The middle cervical ganglion is the smallest of the three cervical ganglia, and is occasionally absent.

It is placed opposite the sixth cervical vertebra, usually in front of, or close to, the inferior thyroid artery.

It is probably formed by the coalescence of two ganglia corresponding to the fifth and sixth cervical nerves.

It sends gray rami communicantes to the fifth and sixth cervical nerves, and gives off the middle cardiac nerve.

Middle cardiac nerve

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Norman/Georgetown thoraxlesson4 (thoraxautonomicner)

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Nerves - autonomic nervous system

sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system

HEAD/parasympathetic ganglion: ciliary ganglion (short ciliary nerves) - pterygopalatine ganglion (nerve of pterygoid canal) - submandibular ganglion - otic ganglion

NECK: cavernous plexus - cervical ganglia: (superior, middle, inferior), stellate ganglion, internal carotid

THORAX: thoracic splanchnic nerves, cardiac plexus, superior cardiac nerve, middle cardiac nerve, inferior cardiac nerve

sympathetic trunks (white ramus communicans, gray ramus communicans) - collateral ganglia - sympathetic ganglion

ABDOMEN: inferior mesenteric - hepatic - splenic - gastric - pancreatic - suprarenal hypogastric: superior hypogastric - inferior hypogastric - vesical - prostatic - uterovaginal, lumbar splanchnic, sacral splanchnic, celiac: celiac ganglia - aorticorenal - renal - spermatic/ovarian - superior mesenteric - aortic plexus Enteric nervous system: Meissner's plexus • Auerbach's plexus

PELVIS: ganglion impar, pelvic splanchnic

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