Sympathetic Nerves. 



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513. The Pelvic Plexuses of the Sympathetic Nerve 



in the female. 



The cervical plexuses surround the arteries of the neck 

 and are called Plexus laryngeus, tliyreoideus inferior and vertebralis. 



The thoracic plexuses belong partly to the vascular system : 

 Plexus cardiacus and aorticus, partly to the lungs and oesophagus : Plexus 

 pulmonalis - and oesopliageus. 



The abdominal and pelvic plexuses are : Solar plexus, 

 Plexus epigastricus s. Solaris, the largest plexus, which supplies all the 

 viscera in the abdominal cavity, situated behind the stomach and in front 

 of the aorta and crura of the diaphragm; it receives both splanchnic 

 nerves coming out of the thorax; the phrenic, suprarenal, renal, 

 superior mesenteric, spermatic and inferior mesenteric 

 plexuses; then the aortic, abdominal and inferior hypo- 

 gastric plexuses out of which latter the uterine, vesical and 

 cavernous plexuses are given off in the female. 



The branches and communications of the sympathetic nerve are 

 evident from Fig. 511 514. ., 



