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The effects of the sympathetic nervous system are divergent, meaning that a single stimulus can have an effect on a large number of targets. in other words, when the sns is activated, all of the organs it innervates are stimulated. this does not occur in the parasympathetic system. why?

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The sympathetic ganglia spreads the stimulus to all postganglionic sympathetic neurons.
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