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Pneumogastric   Listen
adjective
Pneumogastric  adj.  (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach.
Pneumogastric nerve (Anat.), one of the tenth pair of cranial nerves which are distributed to the pharynx, esophagus, larynx, lungs, heart, stomach, liver, and spleen, and, in fishes and many amphibia, to the branchial apparatus and also to the sides of the body.





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"Pneumogastric" Quotes from Famous Books



... causes for this distressing complaint. Generally the cause is to be found in the stomach. Something that has no right there is in that organ, and irritating the pneumogastric nerve that connects the stomach with the brain. It is a ...
— The Royal Road to Health • Chas. A. Tyrrell
... tenth pair (vagus, or pneumogastric, nerves; nerves of feeling and of muscular control; afferent and efferent) connect with the heart, larynx, lungs, and stomach. They have the widest distribution of ...
— Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools • Francis M. Walters, A.M.


Words linked to "Pneumogastric" :   stomach, nervus vagus, wandering nerve, tenth cranial nerve, cranial nerve, vagus nerve, pneumogastric nerve, lung


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