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vagus nerve

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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

Label

vagus nerve

Synonyms
  • nervus vagus [x]
  • tenth cranial nerve
  • vagus
  • vagus X nerve
  • vagus nerve [X]
  • vagus nerve tree
database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, human_reference_atlas

RO 0002175

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Gray791.png

external definition

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]

has related synonym

vagal nerve, pneuomgastric nerve, nerve X, cranial nerve X, CN-X, vagus nerve or its root, nervus vagus

homology notes

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]

id

UBERON:0001759