Medical Dictionary
vagus nerve
noun
Medical Definition of VAGUS NERVE
: either of the tenth pair of cranial nerves that arise from the medulla and supply chiefly the viscera especially with autonomic sensory and motor fibers—called also pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve, vagus
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