Latin term used for a nerve which connects two other nerves
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Ramus communicans
Scheme showing structure of a typical spinal nerve. 1. Somatic efferent. 2. Somatic afferent. 3,4,5. Sympathetic efferent. 6,7. Autonomic afferent.
Diagram of the course and branches of a typical intercostal nerve. (Rami communicantes labeled at center.)
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Latin
ramus communicans nervorum spinalium
TA98
A14.2.00.033 A12.2.16.073
FMA
5874
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy
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Ramus communicans (pl.: rami communicantes) is the Latin term used for a nerve which connects two other nerves, and can be translated as "communicating branch".
Ramuscommunicans (pl.: rami communicantes) is the Latin term used for a nerve which connects two other nerves, and can be translated as "communicating...
The white ramuscommunicans (pl.: rami communicantes) from Latin ramus (branch) and communicans (communicating) is the preganglionic sympathetic outflow...
Each spinal nerve receives a branch called a gray ramuscommunicans (pl.: rami communicantes) from the adjacent paravertebral ganglion of the sympathetic...
intervertebral foramen, it branches into the dorsal ramus, the ventral ramus, and the ramuscommunicans. Each of these three structures carries both sensory...
Communicans is a Latin word meaning "communicating". It is most commonly used in medical or biological terminology. The rami communicans are connective...
gray ramuscommunicans. There is still a myelin sheath present – just in far lower amounts compared to the white ramuscommunicans. This ramus then enters...
connected with the lumbar part of the sympathetic trunk by a white ramuscommunicans. The nerves pass obliquely outward behind the psoas major, or between...
then passes on the information via postganglionic fibers in a gray ramuscommunicans. 31 pairs of gray rami communicantes exit the sympathetic trunk to...
connected with the lumbar part of the sympathetic trunk by a white ramuscommunicans. The nerves pass obliquely outward behind the Psoas major, or between...
pubic ramus. Ramus may also be used to refer to nerves, such as the ramuscommunicans. A facet refers to a small, flattened articular surface.[citation...
divisions of the upper four cervical nerves. Each receives a gray ramuscommunicans from the superior cervical ganglion. The SCG is located anterior to...
ganglion into the sympathetic trunk, move into a ventral ramus via a white ramuscommunicans, and finally move into the mixed spinal nerve between the...
communicating nerve or colloquially known as the peroneal anastomotic (n. communicans fibularis), arises from sciatic origins near the head of the fibula,...
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