Hypertext Webster Gateway: "vagus"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Vagus \Va"gus\, a. [L., wandering.] (Anat.)
Wandering; -- applied especially to the pneumogastric nerve.
-- n. The vagus, ore pneumogastric, nerve.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
vagus
n : a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs
and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the
abdominal viscera [syn: {vagus nerve}, {nervus vagus}, {pneumogastric},
{pneumogastric nerve}, {tenth cranial nerve}, {wandering
nerve}]
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