Venous plexus
As venous plexus ( plural : venous plexus ), also venous plexus or venous plexus ( lat. Venous plexus , . English venous plexus ) called, refers to a network ( Plexus ) of interconnected ( anastomoses ) venous blood vessels .
Venous plexuses are found in several places in the human body. For example:
- Choroid plexus in the brain ventricles
- Pampiniform plexus (Eng. 'Tendril plexus ') in the testicles
- Pterygoid plexus around the wing process ( processus pterygoideus ) of the sphenoid bone
- Plexus venosus rectalis on the rectum
- Plexus venosus foraminis ovalis in the foramen ovale of the skull
- Batson's venous plexus (= paravertebral venous plexus) in front of the spine
- Plexus vertebralis internus ventralis on the front of the spinal cord and in the area of the dural sac in the lumbar spine
- Plexus venosus vertebralis internus in the spinal canal
- Plexus venosus vaginalis around the vagina
- Plexus venosus prostatee on the prostate
- Plexus venosus vesicalis (Eng. 'Bladder vein plexus ') on the urinary bladder
- Plexus venosus sclerae (Eng. ' Schlemm's Canal ') in the eye
- Plexus venosus pharyngeus ( Eng. ' Pharyngeal plexus ') in the pharynx
- Plexus cavernosi concharum in the area of the inferior turbinate
literature
- Martin C. Hirsch: Glossary of Neuroanatomy. Verlag Springer, 1999, ISBN 3-540-66000-3 , p. 121f, limited preview in Google book search
- Wolfgang Dauber, Heinz Feneis: Image Lexicon of Anatomy. Georg Thieme Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-133-30109-8 , p. 290. Restricted preview in the Google book search