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▪ I. ‖ complexus1|kəmˈplɛksəs|
[In form a. L. complexus (see complex n.); but in sense treated as a compound of L. com- together + plexus plaiting.]
An interwoven structure; an involved or complicated system; a complex, ‘tissue’. (Cf. plexus.)
1871Fraser Life Berkeley x. 414 The web of necessary thought—the complexus of Reason. 1876Bartholow Mat. Med. (1879) 63 The complexus of morbid actions, called fever. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 345 A many-layered complexus of tissue, which is to be regarded as the phloem.
▪ II. ‖ comˈplexus2 Anat.
[L. complexus, pa. pple. of complecti (with musculus understood; cf. biceps, etc.); so called from its manifold subdivisions and points of attachment.]
A large muscle attached to the vertebræ of the neck and upper part of the back, which serves to bend the head back.
1831R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 253 The Complexus is a pretty thick elongated muscle..situated under the splenius. |