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Definition of Plexus
1. Noun. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
Generic synonyms: Anatomical Structure, Bodily Structure, Body Structure, Complex Body Part, Structure
Specialized synonyms: Aortic Plexus, Nerve Plexus, Choroid Plexus, Plexus Choroideus, Lumbar Plexus, Plexus Lumbalis, Pterygoid Plexus, Rete Testis
Definition of Plexus
1. n. A network of vessels, nerves, or fibers.
2. n. A network; an intricate or interwoven combination of elements or parts in a coherent structure.
Definition of Plexus
1. Noun. A network or interwoven mass, especially (anatomy) of nerves, blood vessels, or lymphatic vessels. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Plexus
1. an interlacing of parts [n -ES]
Medical Definition of Plexus
1. A network or tangle, a general term for a network of lymphatic vessels, nerves or veins. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plexus
Literary usage of 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)
"From the epigastric or solar plexus are derived the following : Phrenic or ...
Aortic plexus. The phrenic plexus accompanies the phrenic artery to the ..."
2. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, William Sharpey, Allen Thomson, John G. Cleland (1867)
"The nerves forming the renal plexus, fifteen or twenty in number, emanate for
the most part ... юте are added from the solar plexus and the aortic plexus. ..."
3. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"The superior gastric plexus springs from the front of the ... plexus Lienalis.—The
splenic plexus, like the superior gastric and the hepatic plexuses, ..."
4. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Lesions in the Domain of the Brachial plexus This plexus may be involved by: (1)
... (1) Upper Lesion of the Brachial plexus (Erb's Type) When the lesion ..."
5. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The internal plexus presents a series of dilated pouches which are arranged in
a circle ... The lower part of the external plexus is drained by the inferior ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1836)
"When the stems of the cavernous nerves are arrived at, they must be followed
through the fibrous mass which envelopes the venous plexus, underneath and ..."
7. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"From the epigastric or solar plexus are derived the following : Phrenic or ...
Aortic plexus. The phrenic plexus accompanies the phrenic artery to the ..."
8. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, William Sharpey, Allen Thomson, John G. Cleland (1867)
"The nerves forming the renal plexus, fifteen or twenty in number, emanate for
the most part ... юте are added from the solar plexus and the aortic plexus. ..."
9. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"The superior gastric plexus springs from the front of the ... plexus Lienalis.—The
splenic plexus, like the superior gastric and the hepatic plexuses, ..."
10. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Lesions in the Domain of the Brachial plexus This plexus may be involved by: (1)
... (1) Upper Lesion of the Brachial plexus (Erb's Type) When the lesion ..."
11. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The internal plexus presents a series of dilated pouches which are arranged in
a circle ... The lower part of the external plexus is drained by the inferior ..."
12. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1836)
"When the stems of the cavernous nerves are arrived at, they must be followed
through the fibrous mass which envelopes the venous plexus, underneath and ..."
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