Internal image of a 65-year old woman’s healthy stomach. The image was gathered with an endoscope, a lighted optical instrument used to look inside the body. Envisioned here is the lower portion of the inside of the stomach – the section in which food passes. The stomach is a J-shaped...
be on alert for symptoms of a rupture. If you have sudden pain in your back, chest, or abdomen, or even just a strange feeling in your chest, call 911 or get to an emergency room right away. Let them know you have an aneurysm so they can do the right kind of tests. ...
Amazing diagram of the path of the vagus nerve and its branches in the neck, thorax, and abdomen, from Wilson-Pauwels et al. (1988). The gonads aren’t drawn here, but they do receive vagal innervation. This isn’t new to science, it’s just one of the cool little quirks of human...
Like most of the weird stuff that goes on in our bodies, the reason why the gonads get vagal innervation is developmental. The gonads actually start developing pretty high up in the abdomen, not far below the diaphragm, and their nerve and blood supply are established at that point. High i...