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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pneumogastric \Pneu`mo*gas"tric\, a. [Pneumo- + gastric.]
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach. -- n. The
pneumogastric nerve.
{Pneumogastric nerve} (Anat.), one of the tenth pair of
cranial nerves which are distributed to the pharynx,
esophagus, larynx, lungs, heart, stomach, liver, and
spleen, and in fishes and many amphibia, to the branchial
apparatus and also to the sides of the body.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
pneumogastric
adj 1: (neurology) of or relating to the vagus nerve [syn: {vagal}]
2: of or relating to or involving the lungs and stomach
n : a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx, larynx, lungs,
heart, esophagus, stomach, and most of the abdominal
viscera [syn: {vagus}, {vagus nerve}, {nervus vagus}, {pneumogastric
nerve}, {tenth cranial nerve}, {wandering nerve}]
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