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Ganglion

A ganglion (pl.: ganglia) is a group of neuron cell bodies in the peripheral nervous system. In the somatic nervous system, this includes dorsal root ganglia and trigeminal ganglia among a few others. In the autonomic nervous system, there are both sympathetic and parasympathetic ganglia which contain the cell bodies of postganglionic sympathetic and parasympathetic neurons respectively.

This article is about neuron clusters. For other uses, see Ganglion (disambiguation).

A pseudoganglion looks like a ganglion, but only has nerve fibers and has no nerve cell bodies.

(also known as the spinal ganglia) contain the cell bodies of sensory (afferent) neurons.

Dorsal root ganglia

contain the cell bodies of cranial nerve neurons.

Cranial nerve ganglia

contain the cell bodies of autonomic nerves.

Autonomic ganglia

Sympathetic ganglion

Ganglion cyst

Nervous system

Neuron

Chiasm

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