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• The vagus also is directly concerned with the deglutitory act, for swallowing is impossible if both vagi are cut. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
• My sort they call vagus frivolous minds that must wander. A Rare Benedictine
• Apparently the vagus nerve is sort of a meta- nerve that transits much of the longitudinal axis of the body. Like Counting Raindrops
• The device, known as a vagus nerve stimulator (VNS), is implanted under the skin and sends electrical impulses to stimulate the vagus nerve in the neck. Is the FDA doing its job?
• On the ridge of bone dividing the carotid canal from the jugular foramen is the inferior tympanic canaliculus for the transmission of the tympanic branch of the glossopharyngeal nerve; and on the wall of the jugular foramen, near the root of the styloid process, is the mastoid canaliculus for the passage of the auricular branch of the vagus nerve. II. Osteology. 5c. The Exterior of the Skull
• Structures include the thyroid gland, aortic arch and great vessels, proximal portions of the vagus and recurrent laryngeal nerves, esophagus and trachea.
• The pudendal nerve supplies the clitoris but the pelvic, hypogastric and vagus nerves serve the pelvis region. Suzie Heumann: Enlightened Sex: Movement For Freeing Orgasm
• Thymic tissue can span from the level of the diaphragm to the thyroid, making surgical dissection difficult (especially in light of the proximity of the phrenic and vagus nerve and other vital structures).
• In addition, I suffered from vasovagal syncope, a fainting and seizure disorder caused by the heart sending incorrect signals from the brain to the vagus nerve and failing to pump enough blood through the body, “cured” by doctors surgically implanting a pacemaker when I was twenty-eight. The Autoimmune Epidemic
• The levator veli palatini muscle, which elevates the soft palate, is innervated by a pharyngeal branch of the vagus nerve.