pneumogastricn.adj.
/ˌnjuːmə(ʊ)ˈɡastrɪk/, U.S. /ˌn(j)umoʊˈɡæstrɪk/ Anatomy. Now chiefly historical.
A. n.
The vagus (tenth cranial) nerve, which gives off branches to the lungs and the stomach.
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the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > specific nerves > [noun] > pairs of cranial nerves > specific cranial nerves
optic sinew?c1425
recurrent nerve1578
optic1615
optic nerve1615
recurrent1615
par vagum1666
fourth nerve1681
accessory nerve1682
chorda tympani1807
abducens1809
hypoglossus1811
pneumogastric1826
pneumogastric nerve1827
hypoglossal nerve1828
facial1834
fifth nerve1836–9
vagus1840
vagal nerve1854
vagus nerve1856
Jacobson's nerve1860
oculomotor1868
trigeminus1875
hypoglossal1876
oculimotor1890
pathetic1890
sixth1899
trigeminal1899
1826 Lancet 20 May 238/1 The pneumogastric (par vagum) is found in all vertebral animals.
1830 Huron Reflector (Norwalk, Ohio) 14 Dec. The stomach..is largely supplied from the solar plexus, and it receives..numerous nervous filaments from the pneumogastric.
1874 D. B. St. J. Roosa Dis. Ear (ed. 2) 66 An auricular branch from the pneumogastric.
1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 608 If the trunks of the pneumogastrics had been the seat of disease, the paralysis would have been still more extensive.
1930 H. G. Newth Marshall & Hurst's Junior Course Pract. Zool. (ed. 11) xiv. 351 Further back the pneumogastrics lie dorsal to the heart and to the roots of the lungs, and close to the vertebral column.
1981 Mountain Democrat-Times (Placerville, Calif.) 22 July 17/2 I centred my attention on the brain..and devoted much care to the pneumogastric and glossopharyngeal.
B. adj.
1. pneumogastric nerve n. the vagus nerve.
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the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > specific nerves > [noun] > pairs of cranial nerves > specific cranial nerves
optic sinew?c1425
recurrent nerve1578
optic1615
optic nerve1615
recurrent1615
par vagum1666
fourth nerve1681
accessory nerve1682
chorda tympani1807
abducens1809
hypoglossus1811
pneumogastric1826
pneumogastric nerve1827
hypoglossal nerve1828
facial1834
fifth nerve1836–9
vagus1840
vagal nerve1854
vagus nerve1856
Jacobson's nerve1860
oculomotor1868
trigeminus1875
hypoglossal1876
oculimotor1890
pathetic1890
sixth1899
trigeminal1899
1827 Lancet 12 May 169/1 The examination after death presented on the left pneumo-gastric nerve the same substance.
1828 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. 299 The lower edge..allows the inferior laryngeal branch of the pneumo-gastric nerve to pass under it anteriorly.
1871 J. R. Cormack tr. A. Trousseau Lect. Clin. Med. IV. lxviii. 6 Section of the pneumogastric nerves causes an immediate suspension of the movements of the stomach, and a diminution in the secretion of gastric juice.
1906 B. P. Colton Physiol. i. iii. 66 The heart receives its nerves from two sources, the sympathetic system and the vagus (or pneumogastric) nerves.
1930 H. G. Newth Marshall & Hurst's Junior Course Pract. Zool. (ed. 11) xii. 283 The pneumogastric nerve or vagus is a large nerve, which arises by a number of roots from the side of the hinder part of the medulla.
1995 19th-cent. Lit. 50 110 Even George Henry Lewes thought that ‘pneumo-gastric’ nerves directly linked the heart and brain in some impressionable feminine natures (p. 55).
2. Of or relating to the pneumogastric nerve. Now rare.† pneumogastric lobule n. the flocculus of the cerebellum (obsolete).
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spirital1568
pulmonic1661
pneumonic1668
pulmonary1668
pulmonical1670
pulmonal1748
pleuropulmonary1829
pneumogastric1838
cardiopulmonary1879
broncho-cavernous1890
pneumic1895
intrapulmonary1898
heart-lung1908
intrapulmonic1923
ventilatory1946
pulmonar1977
1838 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. 6 61 In all it corresponds to the point at which the superior laryngeal nerve is given off from the pneumo-gastric trunk.
1842 E. Wilson Anatomist's Vade Mecum (ed. 2) 384 The Pneumogastric lobule..is situated on the anterior border of the cerebellum.
1852 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 142 240 The branchial ganglia correspond in function to the pneumonic portion of the pneumogastric apparatus of the medulla oblongata.
1874 Lancet 25 Apr. 578/2 The cardiac symptoms result from pneumogastric irritation.
1890 G. Fleming tr. A. Chauveau Compar. Anat. Domesticated Animals (ed. 2) 689 Two prominences situated one above the other, above the crura cerebelli; the first is designated the amygdala.., the second the pneumogastric lobule (or flocculus).
1920 Lancet 28 Feb. 511/1 Thus the danger of pneumogastric paralysis may be avoided.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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