See Also: gastric plexuses of autonomic system(medicine)
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automaton (medicine) and gastric plexuses of autonomic system (medicine)


automaton (medicine)


automaton


Origin: L. Fr. Gr, neut. Of self-moving; self + a root ma, man, to strive, think, cf. To strive. See Mean, v. I.

1. Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action. "So great and admirable an automaton as the world." (Boyle) "These living automata, human bodies." (Boyle)

2. A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc.

Source: Websters Dictionary


gastric plexuses of autonomic system (medicine)


gastric plexuses of autonomic system


The plexus's along the greater and lesser curvatures of the stomach derived from the coeliac plexus; also known as inferior and superior plexus.

Synonym: plexus gastrici systematis autonomici.