Text: Designating one of the two great nerve-systems in vertebrates (the other being the cerebro-spinal), consisting of a double chain of ganglia, with connecting fibers, along the plexuses which supply the viscera and blood-vessels and maintain relations between their various activities; belonging to or forming part of this system. Also applied to a similar set of nerves supplying the viscera in some invertebrates.

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