PLEXUS CHOROIDEUS

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Meaning:

A vascular plexus of the cerebral ventricles that regulate intraventricular pressure

Synonyms:

choroid plexus; plexus choroideus

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("plexus choroideus" is a kind of...):

plexus; rete (a network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels)

Meronyms (parts of "plexus choroideus"):

arteria choroidea; choroidal artery (an artery that supplies the choroid plexus)

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