Usually means: Cranial nerve, controls autonomic functions.
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  1. vagus: Merriam-Webster
  2. vagus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vagus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vagus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. vagus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Vagus, vagus: Wordnik
  7. vagus: Wiktionary
  8. vagus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. vagus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. vagus: Dictionary.com
  11. Vagus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Vagus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. vagus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. vagus: Rhymezone
  15. Vagus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. vagus: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. vagus: FreeDictionary.org
  18. vagus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. vagus: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. vagus: Legal dictionary

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  1. vagus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. vagus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. vagus: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  4. vagus: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vagus: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

(Note: See vagi as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (vagus)

noun:  (Roman Catholicism) A homeless person or vagrant.
noun:  (neuroanatomy) Ellipsis of vagus nerve. [(neuroanatomy) Either of the tenth pair of cranial nerves which extend from the medulla oblongata down into the abdomen. Branches of these important nerves supply the tongue, larynx, lungs, gut, and heart.]

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