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Nervous System > Peripheral Nervous System > Peripheral Nerves > Cranial Nerves > Vagus Nerve
Nervous System > Peripheral Nervous System > Autonomic Nervous System > Autonomic Pathways > Vagus Nerve
Nervous System > Peripheral Nervous System > Peripheral Nerves > Autonomic Pathways > Vagus Nerve
Nervous System > Peripheral Nervous System > Autonomic Nervous System > Parasympathetic Nervous System > Vagus Nerve

Preferred term

Vagus Nerve  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Cranial Nerves, Tenth
  • Cranial Nerve, Tenth
  • Cranial Nerve X
  • Nerve, Pneumogastric
  • Nerves, Pneumogastric
  • Nerves, Tenth Cranial
  • Nerve, Tenth Cranial
  • Nerve X
  • Nerve X, Cranial
  • Nerve Xs
  • Nervus Vagus
  • Pneumogastric Nerve
  • Pneumogastric Nerves
  • Tenth Cranial Nerve
  • Tenth Cranial Nerves
  • Vagus, Nervus

Note

  • neoplasm = VAGUS NERVE DISEASES (IM) + CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS (IM) + histological type of neoplasm (IM)

Scope note

  • The 10th cranial nerve. The vagus is a mixed nerve which contains somatic afferents (from skin in back of the ear and the external auditory meatus), visceral afferents (from the pharynx, larynx, thorax, and abdomen), parasympathetic efferents (to the thorax and abdomen), and efferents to striated muscle (of the larynx and pharynx).

In other languages

  • kiertäjähermo

    Finnish

  • 10. aivohermo
  • kymmenes aivohermo
  • n. vagus
  • nervus vagus
  • vagus
  • vagushermo
  • X aivohermo
  • Vagusnerv

    Swedish

  • 10:e kranialnerv
  • Nervus vagus

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014630

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