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plexus

[plek-suhs] / ˈplɛk səs /
NOUN
network
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The connection, Drew and his colleagues determined, is the vertebral venous plexus, a network of veins that connects the abdomen to the spine in mice and humans alike.

From Los Angeles Times May 7, 2026

For all of the good things in their performance it ended with a kick to the solar plexus.

From BBC May 25, 2024

They focused on a small region called the choroid plexus, which is known as a major conduit of immune cells into the brain.

From Science Daily Jan. 3, 2024

My solar plexus warmed in the familiar way then — as though here, too, might be an opening for me to see my way through to a life populated with more desire than dread.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 15, 2023

I can feel that cough stirring in me solar plexus an’ workin’ its way up through me entrails till the next thing it takes off the top o’ me head.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

Short reflexes, on the other hand, are orchestrated by intrinsic nerve plexuses within the alimentary canal wall.

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

This fluid is produced by filtering blood at the choroid plexuses in the four ventricles of the brain.

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

These two plexuses and their connections were introduced earlier as the enteric nervous system.

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

These plexuses are described as arising from spinal nerves and giving rise to certain systemic nerves, but they contain fibers that serve sensory functions or fibers that serve motor functions.

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

These tumours are rare, and are chiefly met with in the main cords or abdominal plexuses of the sympathetic system of children or young adults.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis




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