Definition of Plexure

1. n. The act or process of weaving together, or interweaving; that which is woven together.

Definition of Plexure

1. an interweaving [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plexure

plexiform layers of retina
plexiform neuroma
pleximeter
pleximeters
pleximetry
plexin
plexins
plexitis
plexogenic
plexogenic pulmonary arteriopathy
plexometer
plexopathy
plexor
plexors
plexure (current term)
plexures
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

Literary usage of Plexure

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

1. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1909)
"... are animated not by the vitality of a unitary protoplasmic substance, but by a plexure or aggregation of more or less autonomous elementary cells, ..."

2. The Engineering Index by John Butler Johnson, Association of Engineering Societies, Henry Harrison Suplee, Johannes H. Cuntz, Charles Buxton Going (1892)
"... Iron, plexure. Belt!. Adhesion of Leather. Results of experiments with iron pulleys. By Samuel Webber. Trans. ASME, Vol. II., p. 224. And Rope Gearing. ..."

3. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1881)
"When the abdomen was opened a large tumour of the transverse colon was found firmly attached to a coil of the sigmoid plexure. Part of the sigmoid was first ..."

4. Surgery of the Upper Abdomen by John Blair Deaver, Astley Paston Cooper Ashhurst (1921)
"Perigastric Adhesions, Involving Gall-bladder, Colon, and Sigmoid plexure. The Small Intestine has been Cut Away. (Andrews.) three courses might have been ..."

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