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单词 solar plexus
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
solar plexus, 
    1. AnatomyAlso called celiac plexus. a network of nerves situated at the upper part of the abdomen, behind the stomach and in front of the aorta.
    2. Anatomya point on the stomach wall, just below the sternum, where a blow will affect this nerve center.
    • so called from the raylike pattern of the nerve fibers 1765–75

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
solar plexus n
  1. Also called: coeliac plexus 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
Etymology: 18th Century: referring to resemblance between the radial network of nerves and ganglia and the rays of the sun
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