pneumogastric
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
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of or relating to the lungs and stomach
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a former term for vagus
Etymology
Origin of pneumogastric
Example Sentences
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"Sir Winston is having his phagocytes counted, his pneumogastric system checked and the eliminatory functions examined in a public post-mortem," raged Columnist Cassandra in the Daily Mirror.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their action is, however, controlled by the pneumogastric nerve, through which impulses of an inhibitory nature are constantly traveling and acting as a restraining force.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
In recent bilateral recurrent paralysis, it may be worthy of trial to suture the recurrent to the pneumogastric.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier
It was a sort of pneumogastric nerve so close did it come to their lives.
From Quiet Talks about Jesus by Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)
The tenth pair, the pneumogastric, also known as the vagus or wandering nerves, are the longest and most complex of all the cranial nerves.
From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.
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