pneumogastric

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adjective

Of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach

Scrabble 20

Meanings

adjectivepneumogastric (not comparable)
  1. not comparableanatomyOf or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach
  2. not comparableanatomyvagus (attributive)
nounpneumogastric (plural pneumogastrics)

plural pneumogastrics

  1. anatomyThe pneumogastric nerve; 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.
    1 more example

    […]were it not for a strange-smelling, at first not unpleasant, but with the passage of time frankly revolting vapour arising from among the recesses of Mr. Magershon's body-linen and issuing, with great volatility, between his nape and his collar-band, a bold and it must be allowed successful effort on the part of that dignitary's pneumogastric to compensate the momentary confusion of its superior connexions.

    1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveof or relating to the vagus nerve

Similar

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

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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