LooseLeaf for Human Anatomy
LooseLeaf for Human Anatomy
5th Edition
ISBN: 9781259285271
Author: Michael McKinley Dr., Valerie O'Loughlin, Elizabeth Pennefather-O'Brien
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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The axons types that compose the gray and white rami communicantes, their anatomic arrangement and location, and the reason for the differences in their color.

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Rami communicantes is a Latin term. This term is used for a nerve that connects two other nerves. It mostly refers to a communicating branch between a spinal nerve and the sympathetic trunk. The sympathetic trunks are a paired cluster of nerve fibers and extend from the base of the skull to the coccyx.

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