tenth cranial nerve

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

nervus vagus, pneumogastric, pneumogastric nerve, vagus, vagus nerve, wandering nerve

cranial nerve - any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem

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