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nerve plexus

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Anatomical junction where subdivisions of two or more neural trees interconnect with one another to form a network through which nerve fibers of the constituent nerve trees become regrouped; together with other nerve plexuses, nerves and ganglia, it constitutes the peripheral nervous system. Examples: cervical nerve plexus, brachial nerve plexus, sacral nerve plexus[FMA]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous_system_plexus ]

Term info

Label

nerve plexus

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim

external ontology notes

in FMA this is a subtype of junction rather than tissue

id

UBERON:0001810

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