Batson venous plexus

noun

Batson venous plexus

noun

Etymology Named after anatomist Oscar Vivian Batson, who first described it in 1940.

Anatomy, Medicine, Sciences A network of valveless veins in the human body, connecting the deep pelvic veins and thoracic veins (draining the inferior end of the urinary bladder, breast, and prostate) to the internal vertebral venous plexuses.

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