prevertebral ganglia

[ prē-vûr′tə-brəl, prē′vər-tē′brəl ]

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n.

Any of the sympathetic ganglions lying in front of the vertebral column, including the celiac, aorticorenal, and the superior and inferior mesenteric ganglions.

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The mother lode he turned to was the ganglia of so-called feeder funds.
The Madoff Victims Who Came Out Ahead|Edward Jay Epstein|July 5, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Small collections of nerve cells, called ganglia, are found in all parts of the body.
A Civic Biology|George William Hunter
The actual performance of the action is then taken up by the cerebellum, medulla, and spinal ganglia.
A Civic Biology|George William Hunter
It has its seat in the back parts of the brain, in the spinal cord and the greater nervous ganglia, such as the solar plexus.
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society|Upton Sinclair

The whole of the ganglia must be concentrated in a limited area in the first segments, almost under the neck.
More Hunting Wasps|J. Henri Fabre
Beyond them are the abdominal ganglia, which I pass over in silence, as the operating insect does not have to trouble about them.
More Hunting Wasps|J. Henri Fabre

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