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1. (n.) vagus
either of the tenth pair of cranial nerves, composed of long sensory and motor neurons that innervate the body from the throat to the abdominal viscera and that function in speech, swallowing, breathing, heart rate, and digestion.
Etymology: (1830–40; < L: wandering)
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1. (noun) vagus, vagus nerve, nervus vagus, pneumogastric, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve, wandering nerve
a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera
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1. (adj) vagus
wandering; -- applied especially to the pneumogastric nerve
2. (noun) vagus
the vagus, ore pneumogastric, nerve
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