plexus

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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

It was like a kick to the solar plexus of their team's chances of progressing, but they were here with their noise and their colour at Stade de Nice.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 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

Its tension seeps into your limbs, settles tautly in your solar plexus and does not leave.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2022

After this one, he touches my solar plexus with his outspread hand, adding, “What slumbers in the heart is what slumbers in the stone, understand?”

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson