English > nerve plexus: 1 sense > noun 1, body| Meaning | A network of intersecting nerves. |
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| Narrower | autonomic plexus, plexus autonomici | A plexus of sympathetic and parasympathetic nerve fibers |
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| brachial plexus, plexus brachialis | A network of nerves formed by cervical and thoracic spinal nerves and supplying the arm and parts of the shoulder |
| cardiac plexus, plexus cardiacus | A plexus of nerves supplying the heart and nearby structures |
| carotid plexus, plexus caroticus | A plexus of nerves surrounding the internal carotid artery |
| cervical plexus, plexus cervicalis | A nerve plexus lying beneath the sternocleidomastoid muscle |
| coccygeal plexus, plexus coccygeus | A small plexus formed by the fifth sacral and coccygeal nerves |
| hypogastric plexus, plexus hypogastricus | A plexus of nerves serving the pelvic viscera |
| lumbar plexus, plexus lumbalis | A plexus of nerves formed by the ventral branches of the first four lumbar nerves |
| lumbosacral plexus | A nerve plexus formed by the ventral divisions of the coccygeal and sacral and lumbar nerves |
| mesenteric plexus, plexus mesentericus | A plexus of autonomic nerves |
| myenteric plexus, plexus myentericus | A plexus of unmyelinated fibers and postganglionic autonomic cell bodies in the muscular coat of the esophagus and stomach and intestines |
| periarterial plexus, plexus periarterialis | An autonomic plexus that accompanies an artery |
| plexus dentalis | A plexus of nerves serving the teeth |
| pulmonary plexis, plexus pulmonalis | One of two autonomic nerve plexuses in each lung |
| sacral plexus, plexus sacralis | A nerve plexus formed by the 4th and 5th lumbar and 1st, 2nd, 3rd sacral nerves |
| solar plexus, coeliac plexus, plexus celiacus, abdominal nerve plexus | A large plexus of sympathetic nerves in the abdomen behind the stomach |
| Broader | plexus, rete | A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting / intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels |
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| Spanish | plexo nervioso |
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