Abdominal aortic plexus
The abdominal aortic plexus is a nerve plexus that the abdominal aorta surrounding. It extends from the aortic hiatus (opening of the diaphragm for the aorta), where it continues the thoracic aortic plexus , to the bifurcation of the aorta, where it continues as the superior hypogastric plexus and the iliac plexus .
The aortic plexus abdominalis forms some branching nerve plexuses, analogous to the arteries branching off from the aorta : The renal artery is surrounded by the renal plexus , which in turn gives off the ureteric plexus to the ureter . With the testicular artery or the ovarian artery , the testicular plexus (or ovarian plexus) also moves to the gonad. The superior rectal plexus is in turn sent to the rectum by the inferior mesenteric plexus .
The plexus aorticus abdominalis receives sympathetic fibers from the ganglia coeliaca , from the ganglia aorticorenalia and parasympathetic fibers from the vagus nerve .
literature
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