plexogenic

English

Etymology

From plexo- +‎ -genic.

Adjective

plexogenic (not comparable)

1. (pathology) Giving rise to weblike or plexiform structures.
   • 1984 December, Ueda, N., Mimura, K., Maeda, H., Sugiyama, T., Kado, T., Kobayashi, K., Fukuzaki, H., “Mixed connective tissue disease with fatal pulmonary hypertension and a review of literature”, in Virchows Archiv A: Pathological Anatomy and Histology, volume 404, number 4, →DOI, pages 339–340:

     Wiener-Kronish's case showed plexogenic pulmonary angiopathy and positive immunofluorescent staining for IgG, C₃ and C1q in the lung (1981). […] Although the aetiology of plexogenic pulmonary arteriopathy is unknown, most evidences indicate a vasospastic origin of the disease (Wagenvoort CA and Wagenvoort N 1970).

   • 2014, Anjeleena Kumar Gupta, Anjali Ghera, Shashank Pandey, “Liver Transplantation: Porto-pulmonary Hypertension”, in Jayashree Sood, Vijay Vohra, editors, Anesthesia for Transplant Surgery, New Delhi: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, →ISBN, page 182:

     Pulmonary arteriopathy may be plexogenic (medial hypertrophy, intimal fibrosis and lesions involving the entire vessel wall) or thrombotic (medial hypertrophy, thrombosis and eccentric non-laminar intimal fibrosis).