solar plexus

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  1. noun The large network of sympathetic nerves and ganglia located in the peritoneal cavity behind the stomach and having branching tracts that supply nerves to the abdominal viscera.
  2. noun The pit of the stomach.

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  1. From its radially branching ganglia.
 

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