vagus nerve
Cranial nerve that branches into the lateral (to body sense organs) and the intestino-accessorial (to the skin, muscles of shoulder, hyoid, larynx, gut, lungs, and heart). [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0471209627 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagus_nerve ]
Term info
vagus nerve
- nervus vagus [x]
- tenth cranial nerve
- vagus
- vagus X nerve
- vagus nerve [X]
- vagus nerve tree
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Nerve consisting of branchiomotor and visceral efferent fibers which branch and innervate the smooth muscles and glands of the heart, lungs, esophagus, and stomach as well as some throat muscles. Sensory fibers supply mucosa of the mouth and pharynx.[AAO]
uberon
pneuomgastric nerve, vagal nerve, nerve X, cranial nerve X, CN-X, vagus nerve or its root, nervus vagus
We conclude this section by listing some of the many synapomorphies of craniates, including (...) (5) cranial nerves (...) (reference 1); Phylogenetically, the cranial nerves are thought to have evolved from dorsal and ventral nerves of a few anterior spinal nerves that became incorporated into the braincase. Dorsal and ventral nerves fuse in the trunk but not in the head, and they produce two series: dorsal cranial nerves (V, VII, IX, and X) and ventral cranial nerves (III, IV, VI, and XIII) (reference 2).[well established][VHOG]
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Term relations
- cranial nerve
- extends_fibers_into some vagus nerve nucleus
- part of some gustatory system
- has developmental contribution from some basal plate metencephalon
- extends_fibers_into some viscus