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plexus

[plek-suhs] / ˈplɛk səs /
NOUN
network
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As time ticked on at Hampden, you waited for the Hearts kick to the Hibs solar plexus, the late sickener that became such a huge theme in their clashes last season.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

The pressure is transmitted through the vertebral venous plexus, a network of veins linking the abdomen to the spinal cavity, which leads to slight brain movement.

From Science Daily ● May 1, 2026

Jamie McGrath's vicious free-kick, Beni Banigime dozing and in rushed Boyle - cool and calm, a sidefoot to the solar plexus of the visitors.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026

“It’s like a gut punch into the solar plexus — takes the wind out of you,” coach Jim Harbaugh said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025

And then he lay there in his fever of sorry and repeated the now memorized note in his head and wanted to cry, but instead he only felt this aching behind his solar plexus.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

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

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

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

There are a few myenteric plexuses in which the nervous tissue in the wall of the digestive tract organs can directly influence digestive function.

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

As he stated, this high degree of individual variation seems to be due to the embryological development of the system, wherein many of the adult channels of circulation are derived from embryonic plexuses.

From Thoracic and Coracoid Arteries In Two Families of Birds, Columbidae and Hirundinidae by Marion Anne Jenkinson


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