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Pneumogastric   Listen
Pneumogastric

noun
1.
A mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera.  Synonyms: nervus vagus, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve, vagus, vagus nerve, wandering nerve.
adjective
1.
Of or relating to the vagus nerve.  Synonym: vagal.
2.
Of or relating to or involving the lungs and stomach.



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... produced on respiration and on the voice by the division of those nerves which are connected with the thorax; and shows particularly the effect of dividing the recurrent branch of his sixth pair of cerebral nerves (the pneumogastric of modern anatomy). He explains how it happens that after division of the spinal cord, provided that division be beneath the lower termination of the neck, the diaphragm will still continue to act—in consequence, namely, of ...
— Fathers of Biology • Charles McRae


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