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





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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


Words linked to "Pneumogastric" :   lung, wandering nerve, neurology, vagus nerve, vagus, nervus vagus, vagal, cranial nerve, pneumogastric nerve, stomach


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