Definition of "solar plexus" []

• The large network of sympathetic nerves and ganglia located in the peritoneal cavity behind the stomach and having branching tracts that supply nerves to the abdominal viscera. (noun)
• The pit of the stomach. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "TELEKINESIS: Heaviness, numbness in the body or just in the arms or legs; pressure at the base of the brain; sensation of something being drawn from the solar plexus or natural body openings."
• "Something huge and heavy had tried to drive itself through his solar plexus and the spine behind it."
• "I put my fist in his solar plexus and as he gasped, employed a little trick I'd learned rom Jaroslav, Grabbing his neck, I felt for the right places, found them, squeezed and shut down his carotid arteries."