[craniosacral division of the autonomic nervous system; generally acts to conserve resources and restore homeostasis, often with effects reciprocal to the sympathetic nervous system; cell bodies of the parasympathetic preganglionic fibers are in brain stem nuclei and in the sacral spinal cord; they synapse in cranial autonomic ganglia or in terminal ganglia near target organs. ( CSP )]
UMLS (CSP) C0030510 Relation/PAR: ANS
Relation/CHD: cranial nerve X
ciliary ganglion