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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Take your pick: solar plexus
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Take your pick: solar plexus
Do you actually read posts before replying to them? I said other than Hinduized lotus-flower paintings of the energy chakra.
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