wandering 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, tenth cranial nerve • Derivationally related forms: pneumogastric (for: pneumogastric), vagal (for: vagus) • Hypernyms: cranial nerve
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