Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the Roman canon of the mass, the prayer following the commemoration or memento of the living, and containing the commemoration of the saints. Also called
infra actionem .
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Again The supper of the Lorde was not instituted to the end that such a sacrifice for synne (as they fayne) shuld be made of it/but that in the vse of it the communicantes shuld be put in mynde/and made partakers of that only propiciatorie sacrifice which christe offered ons only for all euer vppon the crosse.
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These preganglionic fibers enter the white rami communicantes and proceed to the sympathetic trunk where many of them end in its ganglia, others pass to the prevertebral plexuses and terminate in its collateral ganglia.
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Gray rami communicantes pass from the ganglia to the sacral and coccygeal nerves.
IX. Neurology. 7e. The Pelvic Portion of the Sympathetic System 1918
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No white rami communicantes are given to this part of the gangliated cord, but the visceral branches which arise from the third and fourth, and sometimes from the second, sacral, and run directly to the pelvic plexuses, are regarded as white rami communicantes.
IX. Neurology. 7e. The Pelvic Portion of the Sympathetic System 1918
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The Descending Ramus (ramus descendens; descendens hypoglossi), long and slender, quits the hypoglossal where it turns around the occipital artery and descends in front of or in the sheath of the carotid vessels; it gives a branch to the superior belly of the Omohyoideus, and then joins the communicantes cervicales from the second and third cervical nerves; just below the middle of the neck, to form a loop, the ansa hypoglossi.
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Postganglionic fibers arise in these ganglia, pass through gray rami communicantes to all the spinal nerves, and are distributed with their cutaneous branches, ultimately leaving these branches to join the small arteries.
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These fibers pass to the sympathetic trunk through the white rami communicantes and terminate in the superior cervical ganglion.
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—Communications are established between the sympathetic and spinal nerves through what are known as the gray and white rami communicantes (Fig. 799); the gray rami convey sympathetic fibers into the spinal nerves and the white rami transmit spinal fibers into the sympathetic.
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The fibers which reach the sympathetic through the white rami communicantes are medullated; those which spring from the cells of the sympathetic ganglia are almost entirely non-medullated.
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From the first two nerves the branch joins the hypoglossal trunk, runs with it some distance, and sends off a branch to the Thyreohyoideus; it then leaves the hypoglossal to form the descendens hypoglossi and unites with the communicantes cervicalis from the second and third cervical nerves to form the ansa hypoglossi from which nerves pass to the other Infrahyoid muscles.
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