| solar plexus | |
| —n | |
| 1. | anatomy Also called: coeliac plexus the network of sympathetic nerves situated behind the stomach that supply the abdominal organs |
| 2. | (not in technical usage) the part of the stomach beneath the diaphragm; pit of the stomach |
| [C18: referring to resemblance between the radial network of nerves and ganglia and the rays of the sun] | |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
solar plexus n.
See celiac plexus.