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Meanings of pneumogastric nerve in English
Portuguese
nervo vago 
A mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera.
Usage of pneumogastric nerve in English
1
The cause acts by producing a transitory paralysis of the inhibitory fibers of the pneumogastric nerve.
2
It was the pneumogastric nerve, which he reached: a nerve which, when deadened by Oriental skill, paralyzes the vocal chords.
3
Something that has no right there is in that organ, and irritating the pneumogastric nerve that connects the stomach with the brain.
4
Reflex pain may occur from disturbances of the pneumogastric nerve, or from the weight and pressure of the enlarged and heavy pericardium.
5
The shock to the heart may be a reflex one through the pneumogastric nerves.
6
Another valuable activity of digitalis is in slowing the heart by action on the pneumogastric nerves.
7
Tried for the pneumogastric nerves, to quiet you.
8
"Some one," he answered in a low tone, "has severed the pneumogastric nerves."
9
They seem to me to be subcutaneous incisions of the neck with a very fine scalpel dividing the two great pneumogastric nerves.