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Pneumogastric nerve   Listen
Pneumogastric nerve

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, tenth cranial nerve, vagus, vagus nerve, wandering nerve.






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"Pneumogastric nerve" Quotes from Famous Books



... and may your thoracic duck ever continue to sail peacefully down the common carrotted arteries, under the keystone of the arch of the aorta, and not rush madly into the abominable cavity and eclipse the semi-lunar dandelions, nor, still worse, play the dickens with the pneumogastric nerve and auxiliary artery, reverse the doododen, upset the flamingo, irritate the high-old-glossus, and be for ever lost in the receptaculum chyli. No, ...
— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall



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