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Sixty-six patients with cervical, called ‘high’ lesions, were compared with 23 low thoracic, lumbar or sacral cord lesions (due in all cases to accidental spinal trauma) as to their awareness of abdominal hunger, abdominal dread and abdominal nausea before and since their injury. The changes reported suggest that such visceral sensations from the abdomen proper are mediated by the vagus and not the sympathetic supply.
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Crawford, J., Frankel, H. Abdominal ‘visceral’ sensation in human tetraplegia. Spinal Cord 9, 153–158 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1971.26
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