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pneumogastric


  2  definitions  found 
 
  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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