The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . (7<7((r, strike: see plague.] Thatwhich strikes in percussion; a percussiou-ham-mer. plexure (pleksur), w. [< L. as if plexura(ML. f), K plectere, yi^^. jilcxus, interweave: seeplexus.] An interweaving; a textme; thatwhich is woven together. plexus (pleksus), n. [< L. jilexiis, an inter-weaving, twining, plaiting, < plectere, pp. j^, interweave, twine, plait: seeplaitT] 1. Anetwork; any collection of intimately coherentparts, as of an argum
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . (7<7((r, strike: see plague.] Thatwhich strikes in percussion; a percussiou-ham-mer. plexure (pleksur), w. [< L. as if plexura(ML. f), K plectere, yi^^. jilcxus, interweave: seeplexus.] An interweaving; a textme; thatwhich is woven together. plexus (pleksus), n. [< L. jilexiis, an inter-weaving, twining, plaiting, < plectere, pp. j^, interweave, twine, plait: seeplaitT] 1. Anetwork; any collection of intimately coherentparts, as of an argument. Antecedent and consequent relations are therefore notmerely linear, but constitute a pUxxui; and this plexuspervades nature. .itiu-r. Jour. Sci., ;id ser., XXXI. 2&G. A perfect Paxils of ideas that mutually snppiirt and in-terpret one another. Encyc. Brit,, II. So. 2. In anat., an interlacing of ner\es, vessels, orfibers; a net-Uke arrangement of parts, or the. Brachial Plexus of Nerves in , VI, \II. I. II, the live main roots (anterior divisions of cervicaland dorsal ncr\eslof the plexus: other cords and continuationsof the plexus arc named in the tigurc, parts so disposed: especially said of certaindelicate vascular membranes chiefly composed plexns of minute anastomosing blood-vessels, as thechoroid plexus, and of similar arrangements ofnerves of the spinal and sjTnpathetie systems. — 3. In malli., a system of one-fold relations. — Aortic plexus, the network of sympathetic nerves onthe side and front of the abdominal aorta, i>et\veen theorigins of the superior and inferior mesenteric called intermesenterk ijfe^ra.—Auerbachs plexus,an extensive gangliated plexus of nerves Iviiig lietwcei!the longitudinal and the circular layer of tlie small intes-tine. Also called myenteric pfeim-.—Axillary as brachial idtxiis. — Basilar plexus. Same as ^-n ;i,«-KTse s-iKus (which see, under k/him).-Brac
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