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PLEXUS

Volume 16 · 49 words · 1815 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.

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