brachial plexus

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noun Anatomy.

a network of nerves in the armpits and neck, innervating the shoulders, arms, and hands.

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Origin of brachial plexus

First recorded in 1855–60

Words nearby brachial plexus

brachial, brachial artery, brachialgia, brachial muscle, brachial neuritis, brachial plexus, brachial plexus neuropathy, brachial vein, brachiate, brachiation, brachiator

How to use brachial plexus in a sentence

The need for affordable health care “goes right to the solar plexus of the middle class,” he said.
Earl Pomeroy Doesn’t Regret the Obamacare Vote That Ended His Career|Ben Jacobs|November 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Fleming himself wrote that “the target of my books [lies] somewhere between the solar plexus and the upper thigh”.
James Bond is Back But is He Any Good without Fleming?|Robert McCrum|October 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Overcoming Fear The third chakra, at the solar plexus, manipura, is about overcoming fear and attaining a sense of belonging.
The Tantric Sex in Avatar|Asra Q. Nomani|March 4, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Wayne spun him over and delivered a hard punch to the solar plexus.
The Judas Valley|Gerald Vance

It has its seat in the back parts of the brain, in the spinal cord and the greater nervous ganglia, such as the solar plexus.
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society|Upton Sinclair
In the afternoon we ran into a plexus of crevasses, and the surface was traversed by high ridges.
The Home of the Blizzard|Douglas Mawson
On this side it might perhaps injure the nervous plexus, which is even more essential than the dorsal vessel.
More Hunting Wasps|J. Henri Fabre
He was conscious of a vague buzzing between his ears and there was a pleasant mellow glow in the region of his solar plexus.
Death Makes A Mistake|P.F. Costello

Medical definitions for brachial plexus

brachial plexus

A network of nerves located in the neck and axilla, composed of the anterior branches of the lower four cervical and first two thoracic spinal nerves and supplying the chest, shoulder, and arm.