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Rete

noun
(pl. retia)
1.
A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.  Synonym: plexus.



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"Rete" Quotes from Famous Books



... The lights never cease with its lappets and bellows to cool and refresh it, in acknowledgment of which good the heart, through the arterial vein, imparts unto it the choicest of its blood. At last it is made so fine and subtle within the rete mirabile, that thereafter those animal spirits are framed and composed of it, by means whereof the imagination, discourse, judgment, resolution, deliberation, ratiocination, and memory have their ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais



Words linked to "Rete" :   anatomical structure, structure, lumbar plexus, complex body part, body structure, plexus, pterygoid plexus, choroid plexus, rete Malpighii, aortic plexus, plexus choroideus, nerve plexus, plexus lumbalis, bodily structure



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