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loss of sympathetic activity
pupil constricts, droopy upper eyelid, lack of sweating on forehead, facial flushing |
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| during healing of a deep wound to the parotid gland the parasympathetic fibers join the great auricular nerve. Saliva production (taste) leads to flushing/sweating. |
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| sympathetic afferents carry visceral pain and enter the dorsal horn with sensory afferents of the skin. They converge on the ame nerve cells in the spinal cord with pain from the body surface so the pain feels like its from the skin instead of from the visceral organs. |
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| When the facial nerve is healing, parasympathetic fibers join the lacrimal gland so whenever the person salivates they cry. |
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| stimulate Vagus nerve (parasympathetic) |
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