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a tangled traffic jam of nerves where your body routes its most urgent telegrams
means A network or interlacing of nerves, blood vessels, or fibers in the body, where many branches meet and weave together.
from From Latin plexus, 'a braid' or 'plaiting,' the past participle of plectere, 'to weave, braid, twine' — the same weaving instinct that runs through 'complex' (woven together) and 'perplex' (tangled up). Anatomists borrowed the word for the body's woven knots of nerves, picturing them as fibers braided like rope.
- solar plexus
- a gut punch here briefly stuns the diaphragm
- brachial plexus
- nerve highway feeding your entire arm and hand
- second brain
- gut plexus has roughly 500 million neurons
- word origin
- Latin for braid or interwoven network
- cardiac plexus
- nerve mesh quietly controlling your heartbeat's pace
celiac plexus — nerve network behind the stomach that controls abdominal organs, studied in anatomy for over 300 years
brachial plexus — nerve network in the shoulder and arm, injury common in erb's palsy affecting newborns
choroid plexus — blood vessel network in the brain that produces cerebrospinal fluid in all vertebrates