Select the Best Description of the Sympathetic Preganglionic Neurons

question 37

Multiple Choice

Select the best description of the sympathetic preganglionic neurons:

• A) cell bodies are in the lateral gray horns of all thoracic and first two or three lumbar spinal segments
• B) axons are unmyelinated
• C) cell bodies are in sympathetic trunk ganglia (vertebral chain ganglia) or prevertebral ganglia
• D) cell bodies are in the brain stem nuclei of the oculomotor (III), facial (VII), glossopharyngeal (IX), and vagus (X) nerves
• E) axons tend to be long

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