plexus
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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 at Paris Fashion Week last year, it was unmissable: a giant, gleaming butterfly hanging above her solar plexus at the Louis Vuitton men’s show by Pharrell Williams.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 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
“Your brachial nerve plexus, I’m guessing,” Kvothe said dryly.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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
Spinal nerves emerge from the spinal cord and reorganize through plexuses, which then give rise to systemic nerves.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
These two plexuses and their connections were introduced earlier as the enteric nervous system.
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
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 Jenkinson, Marion Anne
