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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 pneu·mo·gas·tric nerve /ˌn(j)uməˈgæstrɪk-/ 名詞
 迷走神經

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pneu·mo·gas·tric a.  Anat. Of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach. -- n. The pneumogastric nerve.
 Pneumogastric nerve Anat., one of the tenth pair of cranial nerves which are distributed to the pharynx, esophagus, larynx, lungs, heart, stomach, liver, and spleen, and, in fishes and many amphibia, to the branchial apparatus and also to the sides of the body.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 pneumogastric nerve
      n : a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs
          and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the
          abdominal viscera [syn: vagus, vagus nerve, nervus
           vagus, pneumogastric, tenth cranial nerve, wandering
           nerve]