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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 pneumogastric
 (a.)肺和胃的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pneu·mo·gas·tric a.  Anat. Of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach. -- n. The pneumogastric nerve.
 Pneumogastric nerve Anat., 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.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 pneumogastric
      adj 1: of or relating to the vagus nerve [syn: vagal]
      2: of or relating to or involving the lungs and stomach
      n : a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs
          and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the
          abdominal viscera [syn: vagus, vagus nerve, nervus
           vagus, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve, wandering
           nerve]