Cranial Parasympathetic Outflow
Cranial nerve
Nucleus
Preganglionic nerve
Ganglion
Post ganglionic nerve
Target organ

3

Edinger-Westphal

  • Oculomotor
  • Ciliary
  • Short ciliary
  • Sphincter pupillae

  • Ciliary muscles
7
 Superior Salivatory
  • Chorda tympani
  • Sub-mandibular
  • Lingual

Salivary glands:

  • Submandibular
  • Sub-lingual
  • Lingual
  • Labial
  • Buccal
  • Greater petrosal
  • Pterygo-palatine
  • Maxillary
  • Lacrimal
  • Nasal
  • Palatine
  • Pharyngeal glands

9

Inferior salivatory nucleus
  • Tympanic branch.
  • Lesser petrosal nerve
  • Otic ganglion
  • Auriculotemporal nerve,
         
  • Parotid gland

 

10

Dorsal vagal nucleus

Vagus

Minute ganglia in individual organs.

 

individual

  • Thoracic and abdominal viscera
Sacral Parasympathetic Outflow  
 

Origin

  • Anterior primary rami of the S2, 3 and 4

Course

  • Pelvic splanchnic nerves
  • Hypogastric plexus

Ganglia

  • In walls of individual viscera

Post ganglionic nerves

  • Individual

Target

  • Distal transverse colon
  • Descending colon
  • Sigmoid colon
  • Pelvic viscera
  • External genital organs