Your solar plexus is the part of your stomach, below your ribs, where it is painful if you are hit hard.
solar plexus in British English
noun
1. Also called: coeliac plexus anatomy
the network of sympathetic nerves situated behind the stomach that supply the abdominal organs
2. (not in technical usage)
the part of the stomach beneath the diaphragm; pit of the stomach
Word origin
C18: referring to resemblance between the radial network of nerves and ganglia andthe rays of the sun
solar plexus in American English
1.
a network of nerves in the abdominal cavity behind the stomach and in front of the aorta, containing ganglia that send nerve impulses to the abdominal viscera
2. Informal
the area of the belly just below the sternum
Examples of 'solar plexus' in a sentence
solar plexus
Staring at the scene, Tara felt an answering growl deep in her solar plexus.
Cathy Kelly JUST BETWEEN US (2002)
Then the realisation reached her with such a jolt that it was almost physical, like being hit in the solar plexus.
Cathy Kelly JUST BETWEEN US (2002)
Henderson must have betrayed her to Jason; her solar plexus tightened at the danger he'd placed her in.