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vagus


  2  definitions  found 
 
  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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