plexus
pronunciation
How to pronounce plexus in British English:
UK ['pleksəs]
How to pronounce plexus in American English:
US [ˈplɛksəs]
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- Noun:
- a network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels
Word Origin
- plexus (n.)
- 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.
Example
- 1. The anatomy and clinical practice of inferior hypogastric plexus .
- 2. Or visualize a golden ball of light in your solar plexus that fills your whole body with energy and healing .
- 3. During my first year as a medical student , however , I stood over a cadaver and learned about the eponymous lymph nodes , artery and vein , contained within , plus parts of the brachial nerve plexus .
- 4. We found that effects of bupivacaine was better than other local anesthetics in cervical plexus block .
- 5. The greatest effect that is still noticeable is the feeling of tenseness in the solar plexus chakra .