plexus
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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
"That would have been a big punch in the solar plexus for Brennan," says Blake.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025
Gel, “Attainable” An absolutely vicious punch in the solar plexus from one of the most exciting new bands in hardcore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
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
Dallas’s sneaker is resting on the soft spot right below my solar plexus.
From "Liar & Spy" by Rebecca Stead
Short reflexes, on the other hand, are orchestrated by intrinsic nerve plexuses within the alimentary canal wall.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The enteric plexus is actually part of the enteric nervous system, along with the gastric plexuses and the esophageal plexus.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Extrinsic nerve plexuses orchestrate long reflexes, which involve the central and autonomic nervous systems and work in response to stimuli from outside the digestive 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, the upper polarized centers, have now the positive rôle to play, the solar and the hypogastric plexuses, the lumbar and the sacral ganglia, these have the submissive, negative rôle for the time being.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
