14. The Autonomic Nervous System

Sympathetic preganglionic neurons synapse:

a. directly on target cells.

b. on skeletal muscle fibers.

c. on sympathetic chain or collateral ganglia.

d. on vagal ganglia.

Why does the sympathetic nervous system cause decreased activity in the digestive tract?

Which of the following statements is true?

Why are many preganglionic fibers in the sympathetic nervous system short?

Efferent neurons in the sympathetic nervous system will always arise in the __________________. Then, they will pass through the sympathetic ____________, where they will either synapse with another neuron, or continue towards the effector and synapse later on.

A preganglionic fiber arriving at the sympathetic trunk could do any of the following EXCEPT:

Which of the following structures would not be innervated by splanchnic nerves?