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What does postganglionic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Located distal or posterior to a ganglion.
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These postganglionic cells, in turn, send their processes to visceral structures.
Its motor component consists of preganglionic and postganglionic neurons.
The toxin inhibits the release of acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junction and affects the postganglionic sympathetic innervation of the sweat glands.
Hemodynamic and neurohormonal effects of clonidine in patients with preganglionic and postganglionic sympathetic lesions.
The toxin also inhibits release of acetylcholine in all parasympathetic and cholinergic postganglionic sympathetic neurones.
Postganglionic parasympathetic nerves mediate both cholinergic contractions and nonadrenergic, noncholinergic relaxations of smooth muscle in the airway.

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