pneumogastric
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pneumogastric (not comparable)
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]pneumogastric (plural pneumogastrics)
- (anatomy) The pneumogastric nerve; one of the tenth pair of cranial nerves which are distributed to the pharynx, esophagus, larynx, lungs, heart, stomach, liver, and spleen, and, in fishes and many amphibia, to the branchial apparatus and also to the sides of the body.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
- […] were it not for a strange-smelling, at first not unpleasant, but with the passage of time frankly revolting vapour arising from among the recesses of Mr. Magershon's body-linen and issuing, with great volatility, between his nape and his collar-band, a bold and it must be allowed successful effort on the part of that dignitary's pneumogastric to compensate the momentary confusion of its superior connexions.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French pneumogastrique.
Adjective
[edit]pneumogastric m or n (feminine singular pneumogastrică, masculine plural pneumogastrici, feminine and neuter plural pneumogastrice)
Declension
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
nominative- accusative |
indefinite | pneumogastric | pneumogastrică | pneumogastrici | pneumogastrice | |||
definite | pneumogastricul | pneumogastrica | pneumogastricii | pneumogastricele | ||||
genitive- dative |
indefinite | pneumogastric | pneumogastrice | pneumogastrici | pneumogastrice | |||
definite | pneumogastricului | pneumogastricei | pneumogastricilor | pneumogastricelor |