tenth cranial nerve

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tenth cranial nerve - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  tenth cranial nerve
      n 1: 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, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve
           , wandering nerve]