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choroid plexus

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noun

  1. a multilobed vascular membrane, projecting into the cerebral ventricles, that secretes cerebrospinal fluid

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They focused on a small region called the choroid plexus, which is known as a major conduit of immune cells into the brain.

From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2024

After a month, the fragments had organized themselves into primitive structures that could be recognized as developing brain regions such as retina, choroid plexus and cerebral cortex, the researchers explained in a telephone briefing.

From Reuters • Aug. 28, 2013

Figure 13.18 Cerebrospinal Fluid Circulation The choroid plexus in the four ventricles produce CSF, which is circulated through the ventricular system and then enters the subarachnoid space through the median and lateral apertures.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

In some of these spaces, CSF is produced by filtering of the blood that is performed by a specialized membrane known as a choroid plexus.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

It is unnecessary to consider the small parts above the thalami, the choroid plexus of blood vessels, the fornix or strip of nerve membrane, and the septum lucidum or delicate fibres under the corpus callosum.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, May 1887 Volume 1, Number 4 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)