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Why are autonomic nerves autonomic?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

If they weren't autonomic you would have to think about controlling the things they control like blood pressure, heart rate, digestion, or anything automatic. Either you're head would explode from your brain having to be so big or it would overload itself and implode.

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