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File: Gray838. png | The right sympathetic chain and its connections with the thoracic, abdominal, and pelvic plexuses

Increased sympathetic stimulation is usually due to physical or psychological stress.

Benevolent and sympathetic in disposition, he won the affection of his people by fearlessly visiting districts ravaged by cholera or devastated by earthquake in 1885.

The sphincter muscle has a parasympathetic innervation, and the dilator has a sympathetic innervation.

And yet early signs of a respectful, even sympathetic attitude toward the character appeared in the plays of Jean-François Regnard and in the paintings of Antoine Watteau, an attitude that would deepen in the 19th century, after the Romantics claimed the figure as their own.

With the dominance of the sympathetic division of the hypothalamus, the opposite changes occur.

Horatian satire's sympathetic tone is common in modern society.

" In Mao: The Unknown Story, Chang and Halliday attributed all the destruction of the Cultural Revolution to Mao personally, with more sympathetic portrayals of his allies and opponents.

This explains the beneficial effect of electroshock therapy in certain depressions and a shift in the reaction from hypo- to normal reactivity of the sympathetic system as shown by the Mecholyl test.

After reading these allegations on message boards, Abdul told People magazine in April 2005 that she suffered from chronic pain for years following a " cheerleading accident " at age 17 and was diagnosed with reflex sympathetic dystrophy ( RSD ) in November 2004.

Unlike other sympathetic ganglia, however, the adrenal medulla lacks distinct synapses and releases its secretions directly into the blood.

Because it is innervated by preganglionic nerve fibers, the adrenal medulla can be considered as a specialized sympathetic ganglion.

Image: Gray846. png | Thoracic portion of the sympathetic trunk.

Moreover, the dominance in parasympathetic action ( with reciprocal inhibition of the sympathetic ) at the hypothalamic level induces, by its peripheral action, the autonomic symptoms of sleep and, by its action on the cortex, a lessening in the reactivity of the sensory and motor apparatus of the somatic nervous system.

" Pitter had a sympathetic interest in Blair's writing, pointed out weaknesses in his poetry, and advised him to write about what he knew.

One of her shortest stories, " Ain " is a sympathetic portrait of a scientist whose concern for Earth's ecological suffering leads him to destroy the entire human race.

Schopenhauer concluded, in fact, that ethical treatment of others was the best attitude, for we are all fellow sufferers and all part of the same will-to-live ; he also discussed suicide with a sympathetic understanding which was rare in his own time, when it was largely a taboo subject.

Although some experiments lead to the conclusion that sympathetic outflow is involved in facial vasodilation 40 years of research have not clarified the mechanism behind active vasodilation.

Despite his outward appearance, Plug is generally the more sympathetic of The Bash Street Kids, often ready to stick up for those who he feels have been unjustly treated.

The Buddhist concept of mudita, " sympathetic joy " or " happiness in another's good fortune ", is cited as an example of the opposite of schadenfreude.

These American raids alienated many sympathetic or neutral Nova Scotians into supporting the British.

His former chief of staff, Günther Blumentritt, visited him frequently, and began work on a highly sympathetic biography, which appeared in 1952 ( though not in Germany ).

Although no drugs act exclusively on the hypothalamus or a part of it, there is sufficient specificity to distinguish drugs which shift the hypothalamic balance to the sympathetic side from those which produce a parasympathetic dominance.

Rather than an accurate account of Jesus ' relationship to Pharisees and other Jewish leaders, this view holds that the Gospels instead reflect the competition and conflict between early Christians and Pharisees for leadership of the Jews, or reflects Christian attempts to distance themselves from Jews in order to present themselves in a more sympathetic ( and benign ) light to Romans and other Gentiles — thus making them a biased source concerning the conduct of the Pharisees.

Timpanists must normally avoid this effect, called sympathetic resonance, but composers have exploited it in solo pieces such as Elliot Carter's Eight Pieces for Four Timpani.