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Batson venous plexus
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Named after anatomist Oscar Vivian Batson, who first described it in 1940.
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Batson
venous
plexus
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Batson venous plexus
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(
anatomy
)
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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