Definition of Plexures

1. plexure [n] - See also: plexure

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plexures

plexiform neuroma
pleximeter
pleximeters
pleximetry
plexin
plexins
plexitis
plexogenic
plexogenic pulmonary arteriopathy
plexometer
plexopathy
plexor
plexors
plexure
plexures (current term)
plexus
plexus annularis
plexus aorticus
plexus aorticus abdominalis
plexus aorticus thoracicus
plexus arteriae cerebri anterioris
plexus arteriae cerebri mediae
plexus arteriae choroideae
plexus auricularis posterior
plexus autonomici
plexus axillaris
plexus basilaris
plexus brachialis
plexus cardiacus

Literary usage of Plexures

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Physiology by Anthelme Richerand, G. J. M. De Lys, Nathaniel Chapman, John Davidson Godman (1823)
"... which the sacral nerves send to the hypogastric plexures: the diaphragm, from the nerves which it receives from the fifth and sixth cervical pairs. ..."

2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"The whole upholding each, the whole by each up- Tlieir social branch the wedded plexures rear, (Proximity of combination dear) High arching, cipher love's ..."

3. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay by Asiatic Society of Bombay (1862)
"... between the marginal plexures of the turns of the cord respectively and the surfaces ; and that, in some nummulites, where there is a corresponding ..."

4. A Biennial Retrospect of Medicine, Surgery and Their Allied Sciences by New Sydenham Society (1875)
"Mr. Darwin1 describes the nerves supplying the vessels of the bladder as forming chain-like plexures of ganglia in the external coat, which run with the ..."

5. The Mammals of India: A Natural History of All the Animals Known to Inhabit by Thomas Claverhill Jerdon (1874)
"The arteries are infinitely convoluted, and vast plexures of vessels filled with oxygenated blood occur under the pleura, and between the ribs on each side ..."

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