Crossword clues for pneumogastric
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pneumogastric \Pneu`mo*gas"tric\, a. [Pneumo- + gastric.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach. -- n. The pneumogastric nerve.
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.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context anatomy English) Of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach 2 (context anatomy English) vagus (attributive) n. (context anatomy English) The pneumogastric nerve; 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.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to the vagus nerve [syn: vagal]
of or relating to or involving the lungs and stomach
n. 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 nerve, tenth cranial nerve, wandering nerve]
Usage examples of "pneumogastric".
The filaments of the pneumogastric nerve originate in the ganglia of these parts.
The ganglia situated over the esophagus of insects correspond to the medulla oblongata in man, in which originate the spinal accessory, glosso-pharyngeal, and pneumogastric nerves.
In this regional division we include the medulla, the posterior and middle portions of which give rise to the pneumogastric nerve.
Golden Medical Discovery is well adapted to remove morbid states of the disease, in consequence of its direct action on the mucous membranes of the air-passages, and its efficacy in allaying irritation of the laryngeal, pharyngeal, and pneumogastric nerves.
Golden Medical Discovery, which exerts a decidedly quieting and tonic influence upon the pneumogastric nerve, which, with its ramifications, is the one involved.
Sometimes it is spasmodic and irritating and particularly so when it is associated with affections of the larynx, or with asthma, involving irritation of the branches or the filaments of the pneumogastric nerve.
When the cough is dry and hard, with no expectoration, it arises from irritation of some of the branches of the pneumogastric nerve, which this remedy will relieve.
This is primarily a disease of the nervous system, involving the respiratory organs through the medium of the pneumogastric nerve.
The philosophy of its action can be readily understood by its effect on the pneumogastric nerve, as explained under consumption and bronchitis.
I had decided to stab him in the throat, to kill him quickly by severing, all at once, the jugular vein, the carotid artery and the pneumogastric nerve.
Absinthe, a liqueur concocted from Wormwood, is used largely in France, and the medical verdict pronounced there about its effects shows that it exercises through the pneumogastric nerve a painful sensation, which has been taken for that of extreme hunger.
The functions of the pneumogastric nerves were violently disordered in this disease, as was shown by the oppressed respiration and extreme anxiety, with nausea and vomiting,--symptoms to which modern physicians attach much importance.
I had decided to stab him in the throat, to kill him quickly by severing, all at once, the jugular vein, the carotid artery and the pneumogastric nerve.