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plexus

[plek-suhs] / ˈplɛk səs /
NOUN
network
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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

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

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

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

The walls of the entire alimentary canal are embedded with nerve plexuses that interact with the central nervous system and other nerve plexuses—either within the same digestive organ or in different ones.

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




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