autonomic ganglion

Ganglion that has dendrites that form a junction between autonomic nerves originating from the central nervous system and autonomic nerves innervating their target organs in the periphery. There are two subtypes, sympathetic ganglion and parasympathetic ganglion. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the autonomic ganglion is

Ganglion that has dendrites that form a junction between autonomic nerves originating from the central nervous system and autonomic nerves innervating their target organs in the periphery. There are two subtypes, sympathetic ganglion and parasympathetic ganglion. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the autonomic ganglion is

It sits within the nervous system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the autonomic ganglion connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of autonomic nervous system and peripheral nervous system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the autonomic ganglion. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as autonomic nervous system ganglion, ganglion of autonomic nervous system, ganglion of visceral nervous system, visceral nervous system ganglion and ganglion autonomicum. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001805, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: autonomic nervous system and peripheral nervous system.
• A kind of: ganglion.
• subtype: parasympathetic ganglion and sympathetic ganglion.

Questions

Where is the autonomic ganglion?

It sits within the nervous system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the autonomic ganglion connect to?

Part of: autonomic nervous system and peripheral nervous system.

Is the autonomic ganglion the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.