vagus Anat. and Path.
(ˈveɪgəs)
Pl. vagi (ˈveɪdʒaɪ).
[a. L. vagus wandering, straying.]
The pneumogastric nerve (see pneumogastric a.).
| 1840 E. Wilson Anat. Vade M. (1842) 403 The Pneumogastric Nerve (vagus) arises by numerous filaments from the respiratory tract immediately below the glosso-pharyngeal. 1876 Trans. Clinical Soc. IX. 96, I endeavoured to compress the right vagus at the angle of the jaw. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 773 Some fibres of the vagus pass to the intestines. |
b. attrib. in vagus nerve, etc.
| 1856 Todd & Bowman Phys. Anat. II. 119 The Vagus Nerve emerges from the Medulla oblongata immediately below the glosso-pharyngeal. 1896 Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 228 Atropine paralyses the vagus endings and centre. 1897 Ibid. IV. 631 Vagus pneumonia, as it is called, which follows section of the vagi in rabbits. |