PTERYGOID PLEXUS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A plexus of veins draining the region of the pterygoid muscles and draining into the internal maxillary and anterior facial veins

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("pterygoid plexus" is a kind of...):

plexus; rete (a network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels)

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