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
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The carotid and right subclavian arteries will then be felt lying close together crossed by the pneumogastric and recurrent nerves, the latter turning behind the subclavian.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph
But, first of all, I should depose That diabolic curve And author of my thousand woes, The pneumogastric nerve!
From Second Book of Verse by Field, Eugene
They seem to me to be subcutaneous incisions of the neck with a very fine scalpel dividing the two great pneumogastric nerves.
From The War Terror by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
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)
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