PLEXUS

Plexus

A plexus is a branching network of vessels or nerves. The vessels may be blood vessels or lymphatic vessels. The nerves are typically axons outside the central nervous system.

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plexus

Noun

  1. A network or interwoven mass, especially of nerves, blood vessels, or lymphatic vessels.
    • 1934: I have the sensation of being immersed in the very plexus of life, focal from whatever place, position or attitude I take my stance. — Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
  2. The system of equations required for the complete expression of the relations which exist between a set of quantities.


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