Cranial nerve that branches into the lateral (to body sense organs) and the intestino-accessorial (to the skin, muscles of shoulder, hyoid, larynx, gut, lungs, and heart). [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagus_nerve https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0471209627 ]
Synonyms: vagus X nerve vagus vagus nerve [X] tenth cranial nerve vagus nerve tree nervus vagus [x]
Term information
- SCTID:362466001
- BTO:0003472
- AAO:0010475
- EMAPA:37797 (MA:th)
- neuronames:702 (BIRNLEX:801)
- GAID:721
- MESH:D014630
- BAMS:Xn
- VHOG:0000737
- TAO:0000453
- UMLS:C1305910 (BIRNLEX:801)
- FMA:5731
- UMLS:C0042276 (ncithesaurus:Vagus_Nerve)
- Wikipedia:Vagus_nerve
- MA:0001106
- BIRNLEX:801
- XAO:0003097
- galen:VagusNerve
- NCIT:C12812
- EFO:0002549
- MBA:917
- ZFA:0000453
- BAMS:10n
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Nerve consisting of branchiomotor and visceral efferent fibers which branch and innervate the smooth muscles and glands of the heart, lungs, esophagus, and stomach as well as some throat muscles. Sensory fibers supply mucosa of the mouth and pharynx.[AAO]
vagal nerve
pneuomgastric nerve
nerve X
cranial nerve X
CN-X
vagus nerve or its root
nervus vagus
We conclude this section by listing some of the many synapomorphies of craniates, including (...) (5) cranial nerves (...) (reference 1); Phylogenetically, the cranial nerves are thought to have evolved from dorsal and ventral nerves of a few anterior spinal nerves that became incorporated into the braincase. Dorsal and ventral nerves fuse in the trunk but not in the head, and they produce two series: dorsal cranial nerves (V, VII, IX, and X) and ventral cranial nerves (III, IV, VI, and XIII) (reference 2).[well established][VHOG]
Term relations
- cranial nerve
- structure with developmental contribution from neural crest
- extends_fibers_into some vagus nerve nucleus
- part of some gustatory system
- has developmental contribution from some basal plate metencephalon
- extends_fibers_into some viscus
- has developmental contribution from some neural crest