vagus

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Each nerve contains two roots: one a nerve of taste, which spreads over the back part of the tongue; the other a motor nerve, which controls the muscles engaged in swallowing The tenth pair, the pneumogastric, also known as the vagus or wandering nerves, are the longest and most complex of all the cranial nerves.

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  1. noun The vagus nerve.

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  • Join me as i go "vagus" (Latin: wandering) my way through the medical arena. —  Vagus Surgicalis
  • Join me as i go "vagus" (latin: wandering) in the medical arena as I go through medical school down under in Melbourne. —  Vagus Surgicalis
  • More extreme measures include hypnosis, acupuncture, medications such as muscle relaxants, nerve block, or the insertion of a nasogastric tube or vagus-nerve stimulation. —  News
  • Peptide neurons in the vagus, splanchnic and sciatic nerves* Export —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The jugular vein and vagus are both at the outer side, and must be avoided, while the inferior thyroid artery and sympathetic nerve both lie behind the vessel, and may be included in the ligature if care be not taken VARIETIES.--_Sedillot's Operation._--To secure the artery still lower in the neck: An incision two and a half inches long, from the inner end of the clavicle obliquely upwards and outwards in the interval between the sternal and clavicular attachments of the sterno-mastoid; this divides the superficial textures; the two portions of muscle must then be drawn apart. —  A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
 

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  1. New Latin (sc. nervus, nerve), from Latin vagus,wandering: see vague.
 

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