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Batson's plexus (medicine) and Toxoplasma gondii (medicine)


Batson's plexus (medicine)


Batson's plexus -->
vertebral venous system


Any of four interconnected venous networks surrounding the vertebral column; anterior external vertebral venous plexus, the small system around the vertebral bodies; posterior external vertebral venous plexus, the extensive system around the vertebral processes; anterior internal vertebral venous plexus, the system running the length of the vertebral canal anterior to the dura; posterior internal vertebral venous plexus, the system running the length of the vertebral canal posterior to the dura; the latter two constitute the epidural venous plexus.

Synonym: plexus venosus vertebralis, Batson's plexus, vertebral venous plexus.


Toxoplasma gondii (medicine)


Toxoplasma gondii


An abundant, widespread sporozoan species (family Toxoplasmatidae) that is an intracellular, nonhost-specific parasite in a great variety of vertebrates. It develops its sexual cycle, leading to oocyst production, exclusively in cats and Other felids; proliferative stages (tachyzoites) and tissue cysts (containing bradyzoites) develop in a wide variety of animal species that acquire the infection from ingestion of oocysts, tissue cysts from infected meat, or by transplacental migration, leading to infection in utero.

Origin: G. Toxon, bow or arc, + plasma, anything formed