Definition for Rami communicantes

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Any of the bundles of nerve fibers connecting a sympathetic ganglion with a spinal nerve and being divided into two kinds:

  • One consisting of myelinated preganglionic fibers—called also white ramus, white ramus communicans
  • One consisting of unmyelinated postganglionic fibers—called also gray ramus, gray ramus communicans