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plexus

noun

as in meshwork

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Recent Examples of plexus It is primarily produced by a network of cells called the choroid plexus, which is located in the brain’s ventricles or cavities. —

Danielle Wilhour, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024 Increasing your caffeine consumption to an equivalent of three to four cups of coffee per day can also help by increasing CSF production through stimulating the choroid plexus. —

Danielle Wilhour, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024 It is primarily produced by a network of cells called the choroid plexus, which is located in the brain’s ventricles, or cavities. —

Danielle Wilhour, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024 In the choroid plexus, a tissue in the large cavities of the brain that produces cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), the walls of blood vessels are much leakier. —

Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2023 Hormones, such as inflammatory cytokines, neurotransmitters, and kinins, interact between the brain and the gut’s local area, called the myenteric plexus, explains Cynthia Quainoo, MD, a gastroenterologist at Gastroenterology Associates of Brooklyn. —

Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 21 Apr. 2023 However, a tuft of pubic hair is suddenly obstructed by coils of intestine and a plexus of blood vessels and nerve endings. —

Erik Morse, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2023 Alpha-klotho is highly abundant in a central structure of the brain called the choroid plexus. —

William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023 Little’s plexus and ... 10. —

Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Apr. 2022

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Trabecular bypass operations: A small incision is made in the trabecular meshwork, the area of spongy tissue between the cornea and iris that fluid drains through, and a tiny device is utilized to allow more fluid to pass through the natural drainage system.

Amy Marturana Winderl, CPT, Health, 25 Nov. 2023
One type of device removes part of the meshwork; the other leaves behind a stent(s).

Amy Marturana Winderl, CPT, Health, 25 Nov. 2023