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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?



My (admittedly deficient) Latin dictionary lists plexus only as an adjective and the AHD derives it from the past participle of plectere, which probably keeps it in the greater adjectival family and adjectives don't come in enough declensions to allow for a fourth one. That said AHD does list both plexus and plexuses as legal plurals of plexus. As to arguments from the proper Latin plural of the word, you might notice, if you reread the sentence, that it is written in English.

Edited to add AHD link.

Last edited by Faldage; 01/15/06 09:11 PM.