Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun vagus

1 sense of vagus

Sense 1
vagus, vagus nerve, nervus vagus, pneumogastric, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve, wandering nerve -- (a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera)
       => cranial nerve -- (any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem)