vagus, vagus nerve, nervus vagus, pneumogastric, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve, wandering nerve
(noun) a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera
Source: WordNet® 3.1
vagus (plural vagi)
(Roman Catholicism) A homeless person or vagrant.
The vagus nerve.
Source: Wiktionary
Va"gus, a. Etym: [L., wandering.] (Anat.)
Definition: Wandering; -- applied especially to the pneumogastric nerve.
– n.
Definition: The vagus, ore pneumogastric, nerve.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 April 2025
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
