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Concept

Vagus Nerve

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  • The brain, in right profile with the glossopharyngeal and vagus nerves and, to the right, a view of the base of the brain. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.

Catalogue

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    Self-steering of respiration through the nervus vagus : [excerpts] / by J. Breuer ; [translated by E. Ullmann].

    Breuer, Josef, 1842-1925. | Date: 1976
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    On the pathology of the pneumogastric nerve : being the Lumleian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London, 1876 ; also, Cold shock in its action on the pneumogastric nerve / by S.O. Habershon.

    Habershon, S. O. (Samuel Osborne), 1825-1889. | Date: 1885
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    Afferent impulses in the vagus and their effect on respiration / by E.D. Adrian.

    Adrian, Edgar Douglas Adrian, Baron, 1889-1977. | Date: 1976
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    On the laryngeal symptoms which result from the pressure of an aneurysmal or other tumour upon the vagus and recurrent nerves / [George Johnson].

    Johnson, George, 1818-1896. | Date: 1887
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    De actione, quam nervus vagus in digestionem ciborum exerceat : dissertatio inauguralis physiologica ... / auctor Joannes Clemens Dieckhoff.

    Dieckhoff, Johann Clemens. | Date: 1835
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