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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 1.6 [wn]:
vagus
n : a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx, larynx, lungs,
heart, esophagus, stomach, and most of the abdominal
viscera [syn: {vagus nerve}, {nervus vagus}, {pneumogastric},
{pneumogastric nerve}, {tenth cranial nerve}, {wandering
nerve}]
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