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pneumogastric, a. (n.) Anat.|njuːməʊˈgæstrɪk, pnjuː-|
[mod.f. pneumo- b + gastric. So F. pneumogastrique (Chaussier).]
Pertaining to the lungs and the stomach or abdomen; spec. in pneumogastric nerve, name for each of the tenth pair of cerebral nerves, the most widely distributed of all these (hence also called vagus), which, with their branches, supply the lungs and other respiratory and vocal organs, stomach, œsophagus, spleen, liver, intestines, heart, etc.
Hence applied to connected structures, as p. ganglion, p. plexus; p. lobule of the cerebellum (= flocculus 2).
1831R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 287 The lower edge..allows the inferior laryngeal branch of the pneumo-gastric nerve to pass under it anteriorly. 1842E. Wilson Anat. Vade M. (ed. 2) 384 The Pneumogastric lobule..is situated on the anterior border of the cerebellum. Ibid. 403 The Pneumogastric Nerve (vagus) arises by numerous filaments from the respiratory tract immediately below the glosso-pharyngeal.
B. ellipt. as n. The pneumogastric nerve.
1874Roosa Dis. Ear (ed. 2) 66 An auricular branch from the pneumogastric. 1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 608 If the trunks of the pneumogastrics had been the seat of disease, the paralysis would have been still more extensive. |