VAGUS NERVE


Meaning of VAGUS NERVE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈvā-gəs- ]

noun

Etymology: New Latin vagus nervus, literally, wandering nerve

Date: 1856

: either of the 10th pair of cranial nerves that arise from the medulla and supply chiefly the viscera especially with autonomic sensory and motor fibers — called also vagus

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