Words Like PLEXUS

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1 Rete Noun      Synonym Words Like Rete
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10 definitions of plexus

1 A network or interwoven mass, especially (anatomy) of nerves, blood vessels, or lymphatic vessels.
2 The system of equations required for the complete expression of the relations which exist between a set of quantities.
3 A network; any collection of intimately coherent parts, as of an argument.
4 In anatomy, an interlacing of nerves, vessels, or fibers; a net-like arrangement of parts, or the parts so disposed: especially said of certain delicate vascular membranes chiefly composed of minute anastomosing blood-vessels, as the choroid plexus, and of similar arrangements of nerves of the spinal and sympathetic systems.
5 In mathematics, a system of one-fold relations.
6 The continuation of the prostatic plexus, supplying the erectile tissue of the penis. Also called cavernous nerves.
7 Same as gastric plexus .
8 A secondary plexus of the cæliac, accompanying the gastric artery. Also called coronary plexus.
9 A large and copiously anastomosing network of veins in the lower wall of the rectum, beneath the mucous coat, from which the hemorrhoidal veins proceed.
10 A plexus of veins surrounding the base of the prostate, formed mainly from the dorsal veins of the penis.
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