Cardiac plexus
cardiac plexus
cardiac plexus n.
A wide-meshed network of anastomosing cords from the sympathetic and vagus nerves that surrounds the arch of the aorta and the pulmonary artery and continues to the atria, ventricles, and coronary vessels.
Historical Examples
At the cardiac plexus, there in the center of the breast, we have now a new great sun of knowledge and being.
Fantasia of the Unconscious D. H. Lawrence
It contains the element of touch, and in this it refers to the cardiac plexus.
Fantasia of the Unconscious D. H. Lawrence
In a child, the solar plexus and the cardiac plexus, with corresponding voluntary ganglia, are awake and active.
Fantasia of the Unconscious D. H. Lawrence
The two upper nuclei are the two great nerve-centers, the cardiac plexus and the thoracic ganglion.
Fantasia of the Unconscious D. H. Lawrence
Thus it has its first delicate root in the cardiac plexus, the root of its intake.
Fantasia of the Unconscious D. H. Lawrence
The upper centers, cardiac plexus and cervical plexuses, thoracic ganglion and cervical ganglia now assume positivity.
Fantasia of the Unconscious D. H. Lawrence
All this surges from that first center of the breast, the sun of the breast, the cardiac plexus.
Fantasia of the Unconscious D. H. Lawrence
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