nervus vagus

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Noun

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nervus vagus - a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscerapneumogastric, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve, vagus, vagus nerve, wandering nervecranial nerve - any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem