VAGAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vagal mean? 

• VAGAL (adjective)
  The adjective VAGAL has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to the vagus nerve

  Familiarity information: VAGAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VAGAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the vagus nerve

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

pneumogastric; vagal

Domain category:

neurology (the branch of medical science that deals with the nervous system)

Pertainym:

vagus (a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera)

Derivation:

vagus (a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera)

 Context examples 

When inhaled, ipratropium binds competitively to cholinergic receptors in the bronchial smooth muscle thereby blocking the bronchoconstrictor actions of the acetylcholine mediated vagal impulses.

(Ipratropium Bromide, NCI Thesaurus)

When inhaled, ipratropium binds competitively to cholinergic receptors in the bronchial smooth muscle thereby blocking the bronchoconstrictor actions of the acetylcholine (Ach) mediated vagal impulses.

(Ipratropium, NCI Thesaurus)

Palonosetron competitively blocks the action of serotonin at 5-hydroxytryptamine type 3 (5-HT3) receptors located on vagal afferents in the chemoreceptor trigger zone (CTZ), resulting in suppression of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.

(Palonosetron hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Guaifenesin increases respiratory tract mucus secretions, acts as an irritant to gastric vagal receptors and recruits efferent parasympathetic reflexes that cause glandular exocytosis.

(Guaifenesin, NCI Thesaurus)

This leads to stimulation of medullary, vagal, vasomotor, and respiratory centers in the brain; and the release of epinephrine.

(Caffeine, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent also has a vagal effect on the parasympathetic nervous system, and as such slows the ventricular heart rate as well as helps eliminate fluid from body tissues.

(Digitalin, NCI Thesaurus)

Galanin is an important neuromodulator, a 30-amino acid non-C-terminally amidated peptide that potently stimulates growth hormone secretion, inhibits cardiac vagal slowing of heart rate, abolishes sinus arrhythmia, and inhibits postprandial gastrointestinal motility.

(Galanin Receptor 2, NCI Thesaurus)

A triangular area containing the hypoglossal nucleus on either side of the dorsal median sulcus and superior to the vagal triangle.

(Hypoglossal Triangle, NCI Thesaurus)

SP is found in neurons of vagal afferent fibers innervating the brain-stem nucleus tractus solitarii and the area postrema, which contains the chemoreceptor trigger zone (CTZ), and may be elevated in response to chemotherapy.

(Casopitant, NCI Thesaurus)

Inhibition of the vagal tone leads to dilation of the large central airways resulting in bronchodilation.

(Ipratropium, NCI Thesaurus)