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Pneumogastric   Listen
noun
Pneumogastric  n.  (Anat.) The pneumogastric nerve.



adjective
Pneumogastric  adj.  (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach.
Pneumogastric nerve (Anat.), one of the tenth pair of cranial nerves which are distributed to the pharynx, esophagus, larynx, lungs, heart, stomach, liver, and spleen, and, in fishes and many amphibia, to the branchial apparatus and also to the sides of the body.






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"Pneumogastric" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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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