wandering nerve

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Noun

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wandering nerve - a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal visceranervus vagus, pneumogastric, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve, vagus, vagus nervecranial nerve - any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem