Diseases

Vagus Nerve Diseases

Diseases of the tenth cranial nerve, including brain stem lesions involving its nuclei (solitary, ambiguus, and dorsal motor), nerve fascicles, and intracranial and extracranial course. Clinical manifestations may include dysphagia, vocal cord weakness, and alterations of parasympathetic tone in the thorax and abdomen.

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Diseases of the tenth cranial nerve, including brain stem lesions involving its nuclei (solitary, ambiguus, and dorsal motor), nerve fascicles, and intracranial and extracranial course. Clinical manifestations may include dysphagia, vocal cord weakness, and alterations of parasympathetic tone in the thorax and abdomen.

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17 entry terms
  • Cranial Nerve X Diseases
  • Pneumogastric Nerve Disorders
  • Tenth Cranial Nerve Diseases
  • Vagus Nerve Disorders
  • Vagus Neuropathy
  • Disorder, Pneumogastric Nerve
  • Disorders, Pneumogastric Nerve
  • Neuropathies, Vagus
  • Neuropathy, Vagus
  • Pneumogastric Nerve Disorder
  • Vagus Nerve Disease
  • Vagus Nerve Disorder
  • Vagus Neuropathies
  • Motor Disorder, Vagus Nerve
  • Sensory Disorder, Vagus Nerve
  • Vagus Nerve Motor Disorder
  • Vagus Nerve Sensory Disorder

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

neopl: coord IM with CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS (IM) + histol type of neopl (IM)

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History Note

2000

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Previous Indexing

  • Cranial Nerve Diseases (1981-1999)
  • Vagus Nerve/physiopathology (1966-1999)
  • Vocal Cord Paralysis (1966-1999)

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  1. C10w.292w.887

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WL 330

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Vagus Nerve Diseases. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D020421. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D020421
  2. Vagus Nerve Diseases. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18554327