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  • noun Plural form of plexus.

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  • Second, in so-called plexuses, occupying different positions in the cavity of the trunk, and standing in especial relation to various organs; the solar or coeliac plexus to the stomach, liver, and spleen; the two renal plexuses to the kidneys; the mesenteric plexuses to the intestine; finally, on each side of the pelvis, the hypogastric plexus to the bladder, uterus, and ovaries -- the so-called genito-urinary organs.

    The Education of American Girls Anna Callender Brackett

  • The power of world-class absurdist humor hit me like a pie in the face when a couple of elementary school friends and I took in a double feature Marx Brothers matinee and laughed till our solar plexuses ached.

    Michael Sigman: Hello, the Marx Brothers Must Be Coming Michael Sigman 2011

  • The power of world-class absurdist humor hit me like a pie in the face when a couple of elementary school friends and I took in a double feature Marx Brothers matinee and laughed till our solar plexuses ached.

    Michael Sigman: Hello, the Marx Brothers Must Be Coming Michael Sigman 2011

  • This type of massage stimulates the nervous plexuses and helps in proper bowel movements.

    Benefits of Massage for Human Health 2009

  • Humankind's salvation is in their solar plexuses and not in their minds and in all that imaginary bullshit our minds accept as hidebound truth "hidebound" meaning some damn silly manmade book that supposedly contains OUR/THEIR god's HOLY WRIT.

    Profiling at Airports The Daily Growler 2006

  • That's what my generation envisioned, at least those of us who felt an urge in our solar plexuses to become troubadours, a collective of storytellers and imaginative dramatists improvising on the spot an art that impressionistically helped us find a new vision of the panorama of views we live within and songs that can be sung in any language with any accent, a mixing of cultures into a spheric culture.

    Time Waits for No Man The Daily Growler 2006

  • The major nerve plexuses are their counterparts in the physical body.

    The Sivananda Companion To Meditation THE SIVANANDA YOGA VEDANTA CENTER 2003

  • The chakras emanate from the center of the spinal cord and are the ethereal components of our physical nerve plexuses, organs, and glands.

    Meditation as Medicine M.D. Dharma Singh Khalsa 2001

  • The nervous system serves the abdominal organs primarily through the hypogastric and celiac nerve plexuses.

    Meditation as Medicine M.D. Dharma Singh Khalsa 2001

  • Nerve plexuses are gateways to chakras, and vice versa.

    Meditation as Medicine M.D. Dharma Singh Khalsa 2001

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