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Definition of Choroid plexus

1. Noun. A vascular plexus of the cerebral ventricles that regulate intraventricular pressure.

Medical Definition of Choroid plexus

1. Formed by the invagination of ependyma into ventricles CP of lateral and third ventricles are continuous, extends posteriorly to temporal horn, 3rd and two lateral ventricles continuous at interventricular foramen CP of fourth ventricle is seperate, shape of a T, vertical limb extends from near Magendie's foramen to the fastigium, horizontal limbs project into cerebellopontine angle cisterns the glomus is a localised enlargement of CP, found at the posterior part of the floor of the ventricle (12 Dec 1998)

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Literary usage of Choroid 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 (1897)
"At the junction between the choroid plexus of the body and that of the descending ... Structure of choroid plexus.—The plexus consists of minute and highly ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"The choroid plexus of the lateral ventricles was examined, and attention ... The general morphology of the choroid plexus varies in the animal scale. ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1906)
"The choroid plexus of the lateral ventricles was examined, and attention ... The general morphology of the choroid plexus varies in the animal scale. ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1884)
"At the autopsy, a cystoid tumour, as large as a walnut, was found in the right ventricle attached to the anterior end of the choroid plexus. ..."

5. A Manual of Pathological Anatomy by Charles Handfield Jones, Edward Henry Sieveking (1854)
"Portion of a choroid plexus, exhibiting a fatty degeneration of the epithelium, from a female aged 45, who for 14 clays previous to her death wat! subject ..."

6. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body by John Bell, Charles Bell (1829)
"Under this title of the internal veins of the brain, the choroid plexus ... The most remarkable thing in the ventricles of the brain is, the choroid plexus. ..."

7. The Anatomy of the Human Body by John Bell, Charles Bell (1803)
"THE choroid plexus. Under this title of the internal veins of the brain, the the choroid plexus comes naturally to be ..."

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