plexus
a network, as of nerves or blood vessels.
any complex structure containing an intricate network of parts: the plexus of international relations.
Origin of plexus
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How to use 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 | THE DAILY BEASTFleming 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 | THE DAILY BEASTOvercoming Fear The third chakra, at the solar plexus, manipura, is about overcoming fear and attaining a sense of belonging.
Wayne spun him over and delivered a hard punch to the solar plexus.
The Judas Valley | Gerald VanceIt 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 MawsonOn this side it might perhaps injure the nervous plexus, which is even more essential than the dorsal vessel.
More Hunting Wasps | J. Henri FabreHe 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
British Dictionary definitions for plexus
/ (ˈplɛksəs) /
any complex network of nerves, blood vessels, or lymphatic vessels
an intricate network or arrangement
Origin of plexus
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