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AUTONOMIC GANGLION

Dictionary entry overview: What does autonomic ganglion mean?

• AUTONOMIC GANGLION (noun)
The noun AUTONOMIC GANGLION has 1 sense:

1. any of the ganglia of the autonomic system whose unmyelinated fibers innervate the internal organs

Familiarity information: AUTONOMIC GANGLION used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• AUTONOMIC GANGLION (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any of the ganglia of the autonomic system whose unmyelinated fibers innervate the internal organs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("autonomic ganglion" is a kind of...):

ganglion (an encapsulated neural structure consisting of a collection of cell bodies or neurons)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "autonomic ganglion"):

otic ganglion; otoganglion (an autonomic ganglion whose postganglionic fibers are distributed to the parotid gland)

Holonyms ("autonomic ganglion" is a part of...):

ANS; autonomic nervous system (the part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands)

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