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  2. Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS): What It Is & Function - ...

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    Your sympathetic nervous system is a network of nerves that helps your body activate its “fight-or-flight” response. This system’s activity increases when you’re stressed, in danger or physically active. Its effects include increasing your heart rate and breathing ability, improving your eyesight and slowing down processes like digestion.

  3. Sympathetic nervous system - Wikipedia

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    Sympathetic nervous system – Information transmits through it affecting various organs. Messages travel through the sympathetic nervous system in a bi-directional flow. Efferent messages can simultaneously trigger changes in different body parts.

  4. Sympathetic Nervous System: Fight or Flight Function - WebMD

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    Your sympathetic nervous system is responsible for your “fight or flight” response. It’s activated when your brain senses that you’re in a stressful situation.

  5. In the heart (beta-1, beta-2), sympathetic activation causes an increased heart rate, the force of contraction, and rate of conduction, allowing for increased cardiac output to supply the body with oxygenated blood.

  6. Sympathetic Nervous System - Structure - Chain - TeachMeAnatomy

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    It dominates during periods of stress or urgency and helps to rapidly prepare the body for intense physical activity. In this article, we shall look at the anatomy of the sympathetic nervous system – its components, actions, and clinical correlations.

  7. Everything You Need to Know About Sympathetic Nervous System

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    The primary function of the sympathetic system is to stimulate your fight-or-flight response which is a physiological reaction that happens in response to a perceived harmful event, attack or threat to survival.

  8. Sympathetic nervous system | Definition & Function | Britannica

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    sympathetic nervous system, division of the nervous system that functions to produce localized adjustments (such as sweating as a response to an increase in temperature) and reflex adjustments of the cardiovascular system.

  9. Sympathetic Nervous System: How It Works and More - Verywell...

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    What Is the Sympathetic Nervous System? The sympathetic nervous system (SNS) is responsible for the body's stress response and is activated when you perceive danger. The brain sends messages to the rest of the body to prepare for and respond to danger, initiating a fight, flight, freeze, or fawn stress response.

  10. What Is the Sympathetic Nervous System? - iCliniq

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    The sympathetic nervous system is a part of the autonomic nervous system, which controls involuntary bodily processes. It collaborates with the parasympathetic nervous system to uphold equilibrium and control physiological functions.

  11. Fight or Flight: The Sympathetic Nervous System | Live Science

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    When faced with imminent physical danger, the human bod y ’s sympathetic nervous system triggers our "fight-or-flight" response. The sympathetic nervous system is a normally harmonized...