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Complex Plexus Complicated Apoplexy Plica Ply
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ PLEXUS  id+ INTRICATE BENDS AND FOLDS
          biol> med> a comPLEX TANGLE
~ PLICA      med> FOLD or in plural      see> PLOT
~ PLICATION  med> TO SHORTEN BY FOLDING  see> PLOID
~ PLICAE     plural of PLICA             sug> COMPLY
             it relates to               sug> IMPLODE
  sc> MULTIPLICATION                     sug> MULTIPLY
      note PLY or LAYER                  sug> COMPLOT
          also PLYWOOD  TWIST  PLAID     sug> PLEAT
~ PLIERS  or PINCER for an INSTRUMENT    sug> COMPLICATE
          TO MAKE FOLDS                  sug> COMPILE
  biol> STREPTOMYCIN PLICATUS IS         sug> ACCOMPLICE
        A SOURCE OF THE ANTIBIOTIC       sug> COMPLEX
  PLICAMYCIN formerly MITHRAMYCIN        sug> MITRAL
  ply> is used in this work as a tag to
       point to TWISTS IN IDEAS IN WORDS
  ply> | to comPLY exPLOit or multiPLY a comPLOt
         avoid PLOTting comPLEtely all words or
         the PLOT may imPLOde or even exPLOde |
  see> APOPLEXY
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