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Definition of Hypogastric plexus
1. Noun. A plexus of nerves serving the pelvic viscera.
Medical Definition of Hypogastric plexus
1. A complex network of nerve fibres in the pelvic region. The hypogastric plexus distributes sympathetic fibres from the lumbar paravertebral ganglia and the aortic plexus, parasympathetic fibres from the pelvic nerve, and visceral afferents. The bilateral pelvic plexus is in its lateral extent. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypogastric Plexus
Literary usage of Hypogastric plexus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The hypogastric plexus. The hypogastric plexus supplies the viscera of the ...
It is formed by a continuation of the hypogastric plexus, by branches from ..."
2. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, William Sharpey, Allen Thomson, John G. Cleland (1867)
"... the inferior mesenteric plexus and part of the spermatic, gives some filaments
to the lower vena cava, and ends below in the hypogastric plexus. ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1836)
"means the gray nervous fibres destined for the corpora cavernosa pass from the
hypogastric plexus thither, and they then unite again in the same ..."
4. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body by John Bell, Charles Bell (1829)
"hypogastric plexus. This is a plexus which lies on the side of the pelvis, ...
The hypogastric plexus takes no determinate origin, but is continuous with, ..."
5. On the theory and practice of midwifery by Fleetwood Churchill, David Francis Condie (1862)
"From the fore and middle part of the left hypogastric plexus a small ... From the
left hypogastric plexus, numerous branches passed also directly into the ..."
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