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Fig. 8-7

Sympathetic Nervous System

- T1 - L2 - thoracolumbar outflow

- synapse in ganglia beside

vertebral column

(paravertebral ganglia)

- interconnected to form

sympathetic trunks

- preganglionic sympathetic axons

to abdominal and pelvic organs

synapse in ganglia closer to organ

- travel through splanchnic nerves