choroid plexus

British  

noun

1. a multilobed vascular membrane, projecting into the cerebral ventricles, that secretes cerebrospinal fluid

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Example Sentences

They focused on a small region called the choroid plexus, which is known as a major conduit of immune cells into the brain.

From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2024

After a month, the fragments had organized themselves into primitive structures that could be recognized as developing brain regions such as retina, choroid plexus and cerebral cortex, the researchers explained in a telephone briefing.

From Reuters • Aug. 28, 2013

The choroid plexus is a specialized structure in the ventricles where ependymal cells come in contact with blood vessels and filter and absorb components of the blood to produce cerebrospinal fluid.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Cerebrospinal fluid is produced within the ventricles by a type of specialized membrane called a choroid plexus.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The choroid plexus of the pia mater turns round the gyrus hippocampi, and enters the descending cornu through the lateral part of the great transverse fissure between the taenia hippocampi and optic thalamus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various