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PLEXUS

Volume 15 · 51 words · 1797 Edition

among anatomists, a bundle of small vessels interwoven in the form of net-work: thus a congeries of vessels within the brain is called plexus choroides, reticularis, or retiformis. See ANATOMY, n° 136.

A plexus of nerves is an union of two or more nerves, forming a sort of ganglion or knot.