celiac plexus

American  

noun

Anatomy.

1. solar plexus.

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Etymology

Origin of celiac plexus

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

Then I had a scare, an enlarged lymph node in the celiac plexus, the area near the pancreas where a group of major blood vessels converge.

From Washington Post

It includes: People who crank back their coach seats into your precious space, ramming the service tray into your celiac plexus.

From New York Times

Similarly it is induced by interruption of the nervous control along the vasomotor tracts, as in destruction of the upper or lower cervical sympathetic ganglion, by cutting the nervous branch connecting these two, in injury to the spinal marrow in the interval between the brain and the second or fourth dorsal vertebra, or in disease of the celiac plexus, which directly presides over the liver.

From Project Gutenberg