Splenic plexus

Splenic plexus

The celiac ganglia with the sympathetic plexuses of the abdominal viscera radiating from the ganglia. (Lienal plexus labeled at upper right.)
Details
Innervates spleen
Identifiers
Latin plexus splenicus
Dorlands
/Elsevier
p_24/12648451
TA A14.3.03.023
FMA 6634

Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

The splenic plexus (lienal plexus in older texts) is formed by branches from the celiac plexus, the left celiac ganglion, and from the right vagus nerve.

It accompanies the lienal artery to the spleen, giving off, in its course, subsidiary plexuses along the various branches of the artery.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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