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tenth cranial nerve

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Noun

a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera

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Synonyms:
vagus vagus nerve nervus vagus pneumogastric pneumogastric nerve wandering nerve

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