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A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels
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plexus
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, Modern Latin, literally "braid, network," noun use of past participle of Latin plectere "to twine, braid, fold" (see complex (adj.)); used of a network, such as solar plexus "network of nerves in the abdomen" (see solar ). Related: Plexal .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A network or interwoven mass, especially (context anatomy English) of nerves, blood vessels, or lymphatic vessels. 2 (context math English) The system of equations required for the complete expression of the relations which exist between a set of quantities. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Plexus may refer to: Plexus , a network of nerves or blood vessels Nervous plexus Choroid plexus Venous plexus Cardiac plexus Celiac plexus Plexus , the title of a 1953 novel by Henry Miller, part of the The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy Plexus Consulting Group ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plexus \Plex"us\, n.; pl. L. Plexus , E. Plexuses . [L., a twining, braid, fr. plectere, plexum, to twine, braid.] (Anat.) A network of vessels, nerves, or fibers. (Math.) The system of equations required for the complete expression of the relations which ...
Usage examples of plexus.
Gaius Justus Gallicus with his short sword sunk to the hilt in the solar plexus of Jeremiah.
Actually, it is the bluish-white light which emanates from the pharyngeal plexus.
Communication was effected through the pituitary body and also by means of the orangefiery and scarlet rays emanating from the sacral region and solar plexus.
There is a resultant active circulation of the fluid from the chorioid plexuses, where it leaks out of the blood, through the ventricles, out into the sub-arachnoid space, and through the arachnoid villi, where it is absorbed back into the blood.
My toes curled and my foot flexed, reveling in the delicate touch of the thumb that traced its way from the ball of my foot down the high arch and up into the hollow below my anklebone, managing to stimulate an entire plexus of sensation.
He stared down in amazement at the colichemarde buried in his solar plexus.
This includes difficulties in memory, speech, and coordination, due to brain oxygen starvation in the orbital gyri of both frontal lobes, as well as the cerebral choroid plexus.
One must, therefore, rely on absolutely precise bullet placement either in the brain or in a major nerve plexus when using such rounds, and the ease of shooting rimfires as well as the low cost of their ammunition seems to offer the best opportunity for developing the necessary level of skill.
The slave seed had sprouted in seconds, filaments wriggling like screwworms into his celiac plexus.
As she drove in under the cut, Beme whipped a straight-leg roundhouse kick at her ribs while holding his Buckler across his solar plexus to stop her knife thrust.
I adjusted the distance between us with a short ballestra and, just as both his feet left the ground, gave him an ungentle side-kick to the solar plexus.
Some of them were integral with patches of artificial skin that were busy melding with his spoiled dermal layers, infusing regeneration virals into the plexus of capil laries.
The girls handled the charismata of human emotions as naturally as breathing, but neither of them had ever made sense of the Chenzeme version, so on that score, the sensory plexus Deneb had made for them was a failure.
In the membranes surrounding the ventricles there are intricate networks of fine blood vessels called chorioid plexuses (koh'ree-oid plek'sus-ez.
There is a resultant active circulation of the fluid from the chorioid plexuses, where it leaks out of the blood, through the ventricles, out into the sub-arachnoid space, and through the arachnoid villi, where it is absorbed back into the blood.