periarterial plexus

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• periarterial plexus — noun an autonomic plexus that accompanies an artery • Syn: ↑plexus periarterialis • Hypernyms: ↑nerve plexus …   Useful english dictionary

• plexus periarterialis — noun an autonomic plexus that accompanies an artery • Syn: ↑periarterial plexus • Hypernyms: ↑nerve plexus …   Useful english dictionary

• plexus periarterialis — [TA] periarterial plexus: a network of autonomic and sensory nerve fibers in the adventitia of an artery, some of which follow the course of the artery to reach and innervate other structures and some of which innervate the artery itself …   Medical dictionary

• plexus — A network or interjoining of nerves and blood vessel s or of lymphatic vessels. [L. a braid] abdominal aortic (nervous) p. [TA] an autonomic p. surrounding the abdominal aorta, directly continuous with the thoracic aortic p. superiorly and …   Medical dictionary

• nerve plexus — noun a network of intersecting nerves • Hypernyms: ↑plexus, ↑rete • Hyponyms: ↑autonomic plexus, ↑plexus autonomici, ↑brachial plexus, ↑plexus brachialis, ↑cardiac plexus …   Useful english dictionary

• root — 1. The primary or beginning portion of any part, as of a nerve at its origin from the brainstem or spinal cord. SYN: radix (1) [TA]. 2. SYN: r. of tooth. 3. The descending underground …   Medical dictionary

• Ganglion — The celebrated 2nd century Greek physician Galen ((c. 130 201 A.D.) who lived and worked in Rome first used the word ganglion to denote a nerve complex. Ganglion still is used to refer to an aggregation of nerve cell bodies. Another use of the… …   Medical dictionary

• sheath — 1. Any enveloping structure, such as the membranous covering of a muscle, nerve, or blood vessel. Any sheathlike structure. SYN: vagina (1). 2. The prepuce of male animals, especially of the horse. 3. A specially designed tu …   Medical dictionary

• body — 1. The head, neck, trunk, and extremities. The human b., consisting of head (caput), neck (collum), trunk (truncus), and limbs (membra). 2. The material part of a human, as distinguished from the …   Medical dictionary

• sympathectomy — Excision of a segment of a sympathetic nerve or of one or more sympathetic ganglia. SYN: sympathetectomy, sympathicectomy. [sympath + G. ektome, excision] chemical s. destruction of the periareterial sympathet …   Medical dictionary