parasympathetic ganglion

Ganglion containing neurons that receive innervation from parasympathetic neurons in the central nervous system and subserves parasympathetic functions through innervation of smooth muscle, cardiac muscle and glands. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the parasympathetic ganglion is

Ganglion containing neurons that receive innervation from parasympathetic neurons in the central nervous system and subserves parasympathetic functions through innervation of smooth muscle, cardiac muscle and glands. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the parasympathetic ganglion is

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

What the parasympathetic ganglion connects to

The atlas records 12 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of parasympathetic nervous system.

Supply and innervation

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

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001808, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: parasympathetic nervous system.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and autonomic ganglion.
• subtype: cardiac ganglion, enteric ganglion, main ciliary ganglion, otic ganglion, pterygopalatine ganglion and sublingual ganglion, and 1 more.
• contributes to morphology of: parasympathetic nervous system.
• Develops from: neural crest.

Questions

Where is the parasympathetic ganglion?

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

What does the parasympathetic ganglion connect to?

Part of: parasympathetic nervous system.

Is the parasympathetic 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.