Anatomy
choroid plexus Audio
cho·roid plex·us [ kor-oyd plek-sus ]
Subclass of:
Cerebral Ventricles
Definitions related to choroid plexus:
  • Blood vessels and ependyma forming villous structures in the ventricles of the brain.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • A villous structure of tangled masses of BLOOD VESSELS contained within the third, lateral, and fourth ventricles of the BRAIN. It regulates part of the production and composition of CEREBROSPINAL FLUID.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • Blood vessels forming villous structures in the third, fourth, and lateral ventricles of the brain.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Secretory epithelium and associated blood vessels of the lateral, third, and fourth ventricles, which regulates production and composition of cerebrospinal fluid.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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