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Pharyngeal ganglion
A ganglion in contact with the glossopharyngeal nerve.
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Petrous ganglion
A ganglion located on the lower margin of the temporal bone’s petrous portion.
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Parasympathetic ganglion
One of the ganglia on the cholinergic nerves of the parasympathetic nervous system. These are usually called “terminal ganglia” because (unlike sympathetic ganglia) they lie in or near the target tissues.
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Nodose ganglion
A ganglion of the trunk of the vagus nerve located immediately below the jugular ganglion. It connects with the spinal accessory nerve, the hypoglossal nerve, and the superior cervical ganglion of the sympathetic trunk.
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Lumbar ganglion
One of the ganglia usually occurring in fours in the lumbar portion of the sympathetic trunk.
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Jugular ganglion
A ganglion located on the root of the vagus nerve and lying in the upper portion of the jugular foramen.
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Inferior mesenteric ganglion
A prevertebral sympathetic ganglion located in the inferior mesenteric plexus near the origin of the inferior mesenteric artery.
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Geniculate ganglion
A ganglion on the pars intermedia, the sensory root of the facial nerve. It lies in the anterior border of the anterior geniculum of the facial nerve.
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False ganglion
An enlargement on a nerve that does not contain a ganglion.
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Collateral ganglion
One of several ganglia of the sympathetic nervous system. They are in the mesenteric nervous plexuses near the abdominal aorta and include the celiac and mesenteric ganglia.
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