Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pterygoid_plexus

1 sense of pterygoid plexus

Sense 1
pterygoid plexus -- (a plexus of veins draining the region of the pterygoid muscles and draining into the internal maxillary and anterior facial veins)
       => plexus, rete -- (a network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels)