Cell Culture Ontology

Last uploaded: July 23, 2014
Id http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000011
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000011
Preferred Name

parasympathetic nervous system

Definitions
The parasympathetic nervous system is one of the two divisions of the vertebrate autonomic nervous system. Parasympathetic nerves emerge cranially as pre ganglionic fibers from oculomotor, facial, glossopharyngeal and vagus and from the sacral region of the spinal cord. Most neurons are cholinergic and responses are mediated by muscarinic receptors. The parasympathetic system innervates, for example: salivary glands, thoracic and abdominal viscera, bladder and genitalia[GO].
Synonyms
pars parasympathica divisionis autonomici systematis nervosi
PNS - parasympathetic
parasympathetic part of autonomic division of nervous system
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