Concept information
Preferred term
Peripheral Nervous System
Type
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Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Scope note
- The nervous system outside of the brain and spinal cord. The peripheral nervous system has autonomic and somatic divisions. The autonomic nervous system includes the enteric, parasympathetic, and sympathetic subdivisions. The somatic nervous system includes the cranial and spinal nerves and their ganglia and the peripheral sensory receptors.
History note
- 94
In other languages
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Finnish
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pars peripherica systematis nervosi
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perifeerinen hermosto
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PNS
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systema nervosum periphericum
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D017933
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