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Network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels

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  • Character might be in a sense defined as a plexus of motor habits.
  • Several adjacent nerves tend to meet in a complicated interlacing pattern called a plexus (see p. 164).
  • The most common source if bleeding is from the Kiesselbach plexus which is an anastomotic
  • They drain into a venous plexus which is situated over the thenar and hypothenar eminences and across the front of the wrist.
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