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.
WordNet
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, tenth cranial nerve, wandering nerve]
Usage examples of "pneumogastric nerve".
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.