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Increasing your caffeine consumption to an equivalent of three to four cups of coffee per day can also help by increasing CSF production through stimulating the choroid plexus.
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Danielle Wilhour, The Conversation, 28 May 2025
It is primarily produced by a network of cells called the choroid plexus, which is located in the brain’s ventricles or cavities.
—Danielle Wilhour, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024
It is primarily produced by a network of cells called the choroid plexus, which is located in the brain’s ventricles, or cavities.
—Danielle Wilhour, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024
In the choroid plexus, a tissue in the large cavities of the brain that produces cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), the walls of blood vessels are much leakier.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2023
Hormones, such as inflammatory cytokines, neurotransmitters, and kinins, interact between the brain and the gut’s local area, called the myenteric plexus, explains Cynthia Quainoo, MD, a gastroenterologist at Gastroenterology Associates of Brooklyn.
—Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 21 Apr. 2023
However, a tuft of pubic hair is suddenly obstructed by coils of intestine and a plexus of blood vessels and nerve endings.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2023
Alpha-klotho is highly abundant in a central structure of the brain called the choroid plexus.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
The choroid plexus is a network of blood vessels that produce cerebrospinal fluid.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
Danielle Wilhour, The Conversation, 28 May 2025
It is primarily produced by a network of cells called the choroid plexus, which is located in the brain’s ventricles or cavities.
—Danielle Wilhour, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024
It is primarily produced by a network of cells called the choroid plexus, which is located in the brain’s ventricles, or cavities.
—Danielle Wilhour, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024
In the choroid plexus, a tissue in the large cavities of the brain that produces cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), the walls of blood vessels are much leakier.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2023
Hormones, such as inflammatory cytokines, neurotransmitters, and kinins, interact between the brain and the gut’s local area, called the myenteric plexus, explains Cynthia Quainoo, MD, a gastroenterologist at Gastroenterology Associates of Brooklyn.
—Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 21 Apr. 2023
However, a tuft of pubic hair is suddenly obstructed by coils of intestine and a plexus of blood vessels and nerve endings.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2023
Alpha-klotho is highly abundant in a central structure of the brain called the choroid plexus.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
The choroid plexus is a network of blood vessels that produce cerebrospinal fluid.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plexus
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Protect Your Eyes The eye's drainage system (the trabecular meshwork) can be damaged by blunt force injury, such as an object hitting the eye.—
Maxine Lipner,
Verywell Health,
10 Mar. 2025
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Some of the telecommunication equipment was shielded by a Faraday cage, a metal meshwork designed to deflect a nuclear electromagnetic pulse that can fry electronics.—
Jack Randall,
USA TODAY,
15 Dec. 2024
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Identity Theft companies can monitor personal information like your Social Security Number (SSN), phone number, and email address and alert you if it is being sold on the dark web or being used to open an account.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
1 July 2025
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This content uses JavaScript and WebGL features that are not supported or blocked by your web browser or device.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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The breathable mesh upper keeps things airy in warm weather, and according to one reviewer, the lightweight design makes these shoes ideal for walking.—
Genevieve Cepeda,
Travel + Leisure,
26 June 2025
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Angel, dressed like a carhop on roller skates (a nod to Shepard’s earlier The Tooth of Crime), wore white leather rhinestone shorts and a white mesh top.—
Helen Schulman,
The Atlantic,
26 June 2025
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The trial court administrator and spokesperson for the Idaho court system declined to comment.—
Alex Brizee,
Idaho Statesman,
1 July 2025
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An alert indicating an abnormality in the aircraft's pressurization system was triggered amid the descent, AP reported, citing Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and other authorities.—
Latoya Gayle,
People.com,
1 July 2025
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From a distillery founded by the grandfather of Jaime Zobel de Ayala in 1834, Ayala Corp., the oldest Philippine conglomerate, has expanded into banking, real estate, healthcare, schools, telecommunications and energy.—
Ian Sayson,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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On the other side, Euan Smith, Group CEO of Malaysia’s broadcasting conglomerate Astro, said that one IP owner has set a particularly positive example in the anti-piracy space in Asia: the English Premier League (EPL).—
Sara Merican,
Deadline,
26 June 2025
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What is home for Superman, the world’s most famous immigrant: Krypton, the United States, the whole of planet Earth?—
Samantha Baskind,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 July 2025
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Return to the show for its two high points: Queen somehow condensed the whole of its grandeur into 21 unforgettable minutes.—
Los Angeles Times Staff,
Los Angeles Times,
3 July 2025
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Maintaining brand integrity across a growing and geographically dispersed network is another potential challenge of franchising.—
Don Tarinelli,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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Once the founder and leader of a local group of Black investors, now ousted from her community, Miss Hortense will dig into her buried past to uncover the murder of an unidentified man found at the home of one of the network’s members.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
1 July 2025
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“Plexus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plexus. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.
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