| tenth cranial nerve 
 
 a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera
 • Syn:
 vagus, vagus nerve, nervus vagus, pneumogastric, pneumogastric nerve, wandering nerve
 • Derivationally related forms:
 pneumogastric (for: pneumogastric), vagal (for: vagus)
 • Hypernyms:
 cranial nerve
 
 
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