Definition of Plexiform

1. a. Like network; complicated.

Definition of Plexiform

1. Adjective. Having the form of a plexus ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Plexiform

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Plexiform

1. Weblike, or resembling or forming a plexus. Origin: plexus + L. Forma, form (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plexiform

pleurotomy
pleurotyphoid
pleurovisceral
pleuræ
pleuston
pleustonic
pleustons
plevin
plevins
plew
plews
plex
plexal
plexectomy
plexes
plexiform (current term)
plexiform layer
plexiform layer of cerebral cortex
plexiform layers of retina
plexiform neuroma
pleximeter
pleximeters
pleximetry
plexin
plexins
plexitis
plexogenic
plexogenic pulmonary arteriopathy
plexometer

Literary usage of Plexiform

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1915)
"A CASE OF plexiform NEUROFIBROMA INVOLVING THE ORBIT. W. ZENTMAYER, MD, Philadelphia. plexiform ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"From the opposite end numerous dendrites extend into the inner plexiform layer, where they branch and form flattened arborizations at different levels. ..."

3. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics, in Fifty Lectures by Theodor Billroth (1890)
"Prom a cylindroma (plexiform sarcoma with hyaline vegetations) of the orbit. Magnified 800. All observations seem to show that the hyaline degeneration is ..."

4. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"That longitudinal zone forming the dorsal region, usually membranous and in some segments plexiform. Dorso-median Fasciculus : see Fasciculus Longi- ..."

5. Anatomy of the brain and spinal cord with special reference to mechanism and by Harris Ellett Santee (1907)
"The plexiform or molecular layer. 2. ... regions of the plexiform layer are small stellate cell-bodies, four or six microns in diameter, belonging to the ..."

6. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1915)
"A CASE OF plexiform NEUROFIBROMA INVOLVING THE ORBIT. W. ZENTMAYER, MD, Philadelphia. plexiform ..."

7. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"From the opposite end numerous dendrites extend into the inner plexiform layer, where they branch and form flattened arborizations at different levels. ..."

8. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics, in Fifty Lectures by Theodor Billroth (1890)
"Prom a cylindroma (plexiform sarcoma with hyaline vegetations) of the orbit. Magnified 800. All observations seem to show that the hyaline degeneration is ..."

9. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"That longitudinal zone forming the dorsal region, usually membranous and in some segments plexiform. Dorso-median Fasciculus : see Fasciculus Longi- ..."

10. Anatomy of the brain and spinal cord with special reference to mechanism and by Harris Ellett Santee (1907)
"The plexiform or molecular layer. 2. ... regions of the plexiform layer are small stellate cell-bodies, four or six microns in diameter, belonging to the ..."

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