Crossword clues for vagus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vagus \Va"gus\, a. [L., wandering.] (Anat.) Wandering; -- applied especially to the pneumogastric nerve. -- n. The vagus, ore pneumogastric, nerve.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
plural vagi, 1840, "pneumogastric nerve," the long, widely distributed nerve from the brain to the upper body, from Latin vagus "wandering, straying" (see vague).
Wiktionary
n. (context Catholic English) A homeless person or vagrant.
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 nerve, nervus vagus, pneumogastric, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve, wandering nerve]
[also: vagi (pl)]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "vagus".
His hand also pulped the thyroid cartilage and crushed the laryngeal branch of the vital vagus nerve.
He used a single swift slash that severed the trachea, the esophagus, the vagus nerves, the carotid artery, and the jugular vein.
If not for the biochip on his vagus nerve, his old ulcers would be perforating his stomach about now.
He said she died of vagal inhibition, which means the vagus nerve stops working, which it apparently can do fairly easily.
The vagus nerve arises in the medulla as a series of rootlets that pass through the base of the cranium and join into a single nerve.
The name of the nerve arises from this fact, since spinal fibers are accessories to the nerve, as it is itself an accessory to the vagus nerve.
The cell-bodies of the inhibitory fibers are located in the bulb, from where their fibers pass to the heart as a part of the vagus nerve.
Instead, the attending is gonna make a small incision and simply cut the leads between the implant capsule and where the electrodes wrap around the vagus nerve.
Unlike the other cranial nerves, which are concerned with the special senses or distributed to the skin and muscles of the head and neck, the vagus, as its name implies, strays downward into the chest and abdomen supplying branches to the throat, lungs, heart and stomach and forms an important connecting link between the brain and the sympathetic nervous system.
His hand also pulped the thyroid cartilage and crushed the laryngeal branch of the vital vagus nerve.
First the cranial nerves: olfactory, optic, oculomotor, trochlear, trigeminal, abducens, facial, auditory, glossopharyngeal, vagus, spinal, and hypoglossal.