Can anyone find a photograph, x-ray or anatomical illustration of the solar plexus? Named for its distinct 'radially branching ganglia', you'd think there'd be something other than Hinduized lotus-flower paintings of the energy chakra.
I think part of your difficulty is that the term is not a medical or anatomical term really, so you won't find a concrete illustration of it. It's a little like "lumbago," a loosely-defined entity from the days before we had our precise tools to identify and make images of structures. SP does have an amorphous correspondence in the human body, as does lumbago for the back ("lumbar") region.
Having said that, here's what Wikipedia [for what it's worth] has to say about the Solar Plexus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_plexus. Some is acceptable and some phrases are meaningless from a medical standpoint.
PS If you really want a diagram, this is a
Gray's Anatomy illlustration:
one CELIAC PLEXUS coming right up! It's probably quite old, to be in the public domain, but Gross Anatomy* hasn't changed much in the last hundred years....
*(Don't be a wise guy; it's "gross" as opposed to "microscopic" anatomy. As you very well know.)
PPS. to turn this into a word post - the subsection of Gray's under which the diagram is located is called "The great PLEXUSES of the sympathetic nervous system." My Latin is highly deficient, but isn't the proper plural (in Latin at least) "plexus," a long u with a line over it and pronounced "plex-OOS," because of being a fourth declension noun?
moving back to medical knowledge, ganglia, and the plexus's illustratrated are nerves right?
well in Hannaman University Medical school (and in the school bookshop/(gift shop) you can see (and purchase an illustration of) the entire human nervious system.
back in the dark ages (ie, when slavery was legal) a doctor carefully discected a former (deceased) slave, and removed ever nerve, and layed them out and preserved the whole thing (as a teaching tool).
for close to 100 years, its a was a difinative 'study' of the complete Human nervous system
Its a bit gross (in UGH! meaning of the word) but its also compelling.
the image might be available on line nowdays... (check out Hannaman University Medical school pages.) if you want something more detailed and isolated than the image from grey anatomy.
Jackie:
No good deed goes unpunished.
Homo, it not just that you were rude to Jackie, its you failed to acknowledge that other have posted links, and given you ideas of places to search for links.
if you were as quick to say "thanks", as you are to complain, you'd be less likely to find your self on ignore list.
at the rate you are proceeding, you'll soon be able to start thread after thread, and no one will read them. won't it be a sad day when there is no one for you to dump on?
Do you actually read posts before replying to them? I said other than Hinduized lotus-flower paintings of the energy chakra.
...of which there are many in Jackie's link...aren't you now doing what you complained Jackie was doing?
I did think the variety might yield a nugget somewhere; oh, well--I should have figured. [shrug]
Ulrich, for your sake I hope you never came across anyone who was as ugly towards you when you were learning a new language as you were to kim joo chang.