Nervous system & sense organs
Sympathetic nerves
Nervi sympathici
- System
- Nervous system & sense organs
- Regions
- Neck, Trunk
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Thoracolumbar part of autonomic division
DescriptionUnreviewed
The sympathetic nervous system (SNS) is one of two divisions of the autonomic nervous system, along with the parasympathetic nervous system.
The enteric nervous system is sometimes considered part of the autonomic nervous system, and sometimes considered an independent system.
The autonomic nervous system functions to regulate the body's unconscious actions.
The sympathetic nervous system's primary process is to stimulate the body's fight or flight response.
It is, however, constantly active at a basic level to maintain homeostasis.
The sympathetic nervous system is described as being antagonistic to the parasympathetic nervous system which stimulates the body to "feed and breed" and to (then) "rest-and-digest".
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Names
- Latin
- Nervi sympathici
- English
- Sympathetic nerves
- French
- Nerfs sympathiques
- Spanish
- Nervios simpáticos
- Portuguese
- Nervos simpáticos