wandering nerve

What does wandering nerve mean?

wandering nerve means "a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera".

What is another word for wandering nerve?

Close synonyms include vagus, vagus nerve, nervus vagus, pneumogastric, pneumogastric nerve. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wandering nerve a common word?

wandering nerve is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wandering nerve come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.