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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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Hypernyms ("pterygoid plexus" is a kind of...):
plexus; rete (a network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels)