tenth cranial nerve

Questions about tenth cranial nerve

What is another word for tenth cranial nerve?

It depends which tenth cranial nerve you mean. In the sense “a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera”, the synonyms are vagus, vagus nerve, nervus vagus, pneumogastric, pneumogastric nerve, wandering nerve. Across all 1 sense there are 6 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of tenth cranial nerve?

WordNet records no antonym for tenth cranial nerve. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for tenth cranial nerve come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for tenth cranial nerveAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for tenth cranial nerveWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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