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Found 2 hits - Term: pneumogastric, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pneumogastric \pneu`mogas"tric\, a. pneumo- + gastric.
   anat.
   of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach. -- n. the
   pneumogastric nerve.
   1913 webster

   pneumogastric nerve anat., one of the tenth pair of
      cranial nerves which are distributed to the pharynx,
      esophagus, larynx, lungs, heart, stomach, liver, and
      spleen, and, in fishes and many amphibia, to the branchial
      apparatus and also to the sides of the body.
      1913 webster
see also:
pneumogastric nerve 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
pneumogastric
     adj 1: of or relating to the vagus nerve syn: vagal
     2: of or relating to or involving the lungs and stomach
     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, vagus nerve, nervus
         vagus, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve, wandering
         nerve
see also:
vagal vagus vagus nerve nervus vagus pneumogastric nerve tenth cranial nerve 
wandering nerve 

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