---Spinal cord 



} Sympathetic chain 



, n ";--->Solar ganglion 



A/) 



Fig. 230. Diagram (after I.angley) showing the manner of connection of the fibers compos- 

 ing the great splanchnic nerve. The left-hand diagram represents the usual arrangement, the 

 preganglionic fibers (black) passing through the ganglia of the sympathetic chain and having 

 their cell stations in the solar ganglion, from which the postganglionic fibers (red) then emerge 

 to run to their destination along the blood vessels. The right-hand diagram shows a possible 

 exceptional arrangement. 



