nerve plexus

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NAME:

  nerve plexus


DEFINITON:

  Anatomical junction where subdivisions of two or more neural trees interconnect with one another to form a network through which nerve fibers of the constituent nerve trees become regrouped; together with other nerve plexuses, nerves and ganglia, it constitutes the peripheral nervous system. Examples: cervical nerve plexus, brachial nerve plexus, sacral nerve plexus[FMA].


TERM DEFINITION CITATIONS:

  UBERON:0001810


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TERM ID:

  PLANA:0000492


ABOUT THIS TERM:

nerve plexus

  ↳is a tissue

  ↳part of peripheral nervous system


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