cervical ganglion

The cervical ganglia are paravertebral ganglia of the sympathetic nervous system. They consist of three paravertebral ganglia: superior cervical ganglion middle cervical ganglion inferior cervical ganglion. The inferior ganglion may be fused with the first thoracic ganglion to form a single structure, the stellate ganglion. Nerves emerging from cervical sympathetic ganglia contribute to the cardiac plexus, among other things. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the cervical ganglion is

The cervical ganglia are paravertebral ganglia of the sympathetic nervous system. They consist of three paravertebral ganglia: superior cervical ganglion middle cervical ganglion inferior cervical ganglion. The inferior ganglion may be fused with the first thoracic ganglion to form a single structure, the stellate ganglion. Nerves emerging from cervical sympathetic ganglia contribute to the cardiac plexus, among other things. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the cervical ganglion is

It sits in the trunk, within the nervous system. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.

What the cervical ganglion connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. a kind of paravertebral ganglion.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the cervical 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 cervical sympathetic ganglion. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001991, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: paravertebral ganglion.
• subtype: cervicothoracic ganglion, inferior cervical ganglion, middle cervical ganglion and superior cervical ganglion.
• contains: vertebral ganglion.

Questions

Where is the cervical ganglion?

It sits in the trunk, within the nervous system. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.

What does the cervical ganglion connect to?

A kind of: paravertebral ganglion.

Is the cervical 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.