It was a sort of pneumogastric nerve so close did it come to their lives.
It appears to me just as inhuman to boil milk as to excite the pneumogastric nerve of a dog rendered incapable of suffering.
The fact was indisputable; an electric current passed through the pneumogastric did suddenly and invariably arrest the heart.
Counter-irritation along the course of the pneumogastric nerve or along the spine is sometimes useful.
There is also close sympathy of the stomach with the lungs and heart through the distribution of the pneumogastric.
The symptoms are mainly those of peripheral neuritis with special implication of the phrenic and the pneumogastric nerves.
Weber found that the pneumogastric nerve stopped the heart's action.
It is some morbific agency, the influence of which, Dr. Whedon said, is exerted upon the pneumogastric nerve.
It produces death by inhibition of the hearts action, and by paralyzing the pneumogastric nerve.
It was the pneumogastric nerve, which he reached: a nerve which, when deadened by Oriental skill, paralyzes the vocal chords.
pneumogastric pneu·mo·gas·tric (nōō'mō-gās'trĭk, nyōō'-)
adj.
Relating to the lungs and the stomach.