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solar plexus

noun

Also called celiac plexus. Anatomy. a network of nerves situated at the upper part of the abdomen, behind the stomach and in front of the aorta.
a point on the stomach wall, just below the sternum, where a blow will affect this nerve center.

solar plexus

Also calledcoeliac plexus anatomy the network of sympathetic nerves situated behind the stomach that supply the abdominal organs
not in technical usage the part of the stomach beneath the diaphragm; pit of the stomach

First recorded in 1765–75; so called from the raylike pattern of the nerve fibers

C18: referring to resemblance between the radial network of nerves and ganglia and the rays of the sun

The need for affordable health care “goes right to the solar plexus of the middle class,” he said.

Fleming himself wrote that “the target of my books [lies] somewhere between the solar plexus and the upper thigh”.

Overcoming Fear The third chakra, at the solar plexus, manipura, is about overcoming fear and attaining a sense of belonging.

Wayne spun him over and delivered a hard punch to the solar plexus.

It has its seat in the back parts of the brain, in the spinal cord and the greater nervous ganglia, such as the solar plexus.

He was conscious of a vague buzzing between his ears and there was a pleasant mellow glow in the region of his solar plexus.

That form of clairvoyance is a sensitiveness related to the sympathetic nervous system, the center of which is the solar plexus.

You're morbidly blue because your solar plexus has gone to sleep; give it half an hour of internal vibration.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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