TENTH CRANIAL NERVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tenth cranial nerve mean? 

• TENTH CRANIAL NERVE (noun)
  The noun TENTH CRANIAL NERVE has 1 sense:

1. a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera

  Familiarity information: TENTH CRANIAL NERVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENTH CRANIAL NERVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

nervus vagus; pneumogastric; pneumogastric nerve; tenth cranial nerve; vagus; vagus nerve; wandering nerve

Hypernyms ("tenth cranial nerve" is a kind of...):

cranial nerve (any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem)