The fact was indisputable; an electric current passed through the pneumogastric did suddenly and invariably arrest the heart.
Physiologists, as we said just now, supposed that the filaments of the pneumogastric nerves distributed to the heart caused its beating.
That which a powerful current will do applied to the pneumogastric nerve, will be done by a profound agitation of grief or joy--truly called a heart-shaking influence.
Defn: Of or pertaining to the vagus, or pneumogastric nerves; pneumogastric.
Defn: To supply with nerves; as, the heart is innervated by pneumogastricand sympathetic branches.
In the absence of any other symptom whatsoever pointing to irritation of the pneumogastric or spinal accessory, I was justified in excluding this as the possible cause of the cardiac infrequency.
The common carotid artery lies in relation to the internal jugular vein and the pneumogastric nerve.
Just back of the common carotid artery and the internal jugular vein and between the two lies the pneumogastric (vagus) nerve.
It produces death by inhibition of the heart's action, and by paralyzing the pneumogastric nerve.
Whedon said, is exerted upon the pneumogastric nerve.
The ganglia situated over the esophagus of insects correspond to the medulla oblongata in man, in which originate the spinal accessory, glosso-pharyngeal, andpneumogastric nerves.
The philosophy of its action can be readily understood by its effect on the pneumogastric nerve, as explained under consumption and bronchitis.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, which exerts a decidedly quieting and tonic influence upon the pneumogastric nerve, which, with its ramifications, is the one involved.
Sometimes it is spasmodic and irritating and particularly so when it is associated with affections of the larynx, or with asthma, involving irritation of the branches or the filaments of the pneumogastric nerve.
When the cough is dry and hard, with no expectoration, it arises from irritation of some of the branches of the pneumogastric nerve, which this remedy will relieve.
This is primarily a disease of the nervous system, involving the respiratory organs through the medium of the pneumogastric nerve.
In this regional division we include the medulla, the posterior and middle portions of which give rise to the pneumogastric nerve.
The filaments of the pneumogastric nerve originate in the ganglia of these parts.
Section of the brain and an ideal view of the pneumogastric nerve on one side, with its branches, a.
Coutagne believes that the pressure on the pneumogastric nerve is a factor in causing death.
Hofmann says that the compression irritates and, in a higher degree, paralyzes the pneumogastric nerves and causes disturbance of the action of the heart.
Currents passing through the head or those which affect the pneumogastric nerves are much more dangerous than others of the same character and equal strength passing through one extremity, for example.
He holds that the unconsciousness in hanging is the result of the compression of the pneumogastric nerves and not of the arteries.
Faradization and galvanization of pneumogastric and recurrent laryngeal nerves caused movements of left vocal cord, but not the right; there was no reflex motion in the larynx.
Injury to spinal cord or pneumogastric nerves or all of them; causing paralysis.
Wounds of the sympathetic and pneumogastric nerves may be fatal, and those of the recurrent laryngeal nerves cause aphonia.
According to him the causes of death are three: occlusion of the air-passages, interruption of passage of blood to brain, and compression of pneumogastric nerves.
He hung two dogs; in one the pneumogastricnerves were dissected out and placed in front of the ligature; this dog (No.
The ligature was placed on the mesial side of the pneumogastric nerve, and close to it.
That portion of the vessel within the scalenus and outside of the pneumogastric nerve is unfavourable for operation, in consequence of many branches being given off in an exceedingly short space.
Several other openings are seen in the tympanic cavity; through one at the extreme posterior end the pneumogastric and spinal accessory nerves leave the skull, and through another, a little further forwards, the glossopharyngeal.
Two foramina pierce the exoccipital just in front of the occipital condyle and transmit respectively the glossopharyngeal and pneumogastric (fig.
Slightly in front of and an eighth of an inch external to the hypoglossal foramen the cranial wall is pierced by a pair of foramina through which the tenth or pneumogastric nerves leave (fig.
External to this is the foramen for the pneumogastric (fig.
A, IX), it lies just in front of the pneumogastric foramen.
It winds up thus, that it may be a germ that irritates the pneumogastric nerve.
He may find trouble in nerve fiber of pneumogastric nerve, atlas or hyoid, vertebra, rib, or clavicle, may be by pressing on some nerve that supplies mucous membrane of air cells or passages.
Of or pertaining to the vagus, or pneumogastric nerves; pneumogastric.
It was the pneumogastric nerve, which he reached: a nerve which, when deadened by Oriental skill, paralyzes the vocal chords.
The irritation of the pneumogastric is perhaps easily explained thereby, but in very exceptional cases only the accessory nerve would be affected.
It is not unlikely that irritation of the extremities of sensory nerves other than the pneumogastric may become the cause of reflex glycosuria.
He points to the ligament situated between the spinae intrajugulares of the temporal and occipital bones, which, as long as it is of normal consistency, separates the jugular vein from the pneumogastric nerve.
Counter-irritation along the course of the pneumogastric nerve or along the spine is sometimes useful.
This area corresponds with the vaso-motor centre, and with the roots of the pneumogastricor vagus nerve in the floor of the fourth ventricle; whence it was at first inferred that this nerve is the excitor nerve of glycosuria.
Stimulation of muscular contractility by the oesophageal electrode has been recommended, but the prospects of success hardly justify the risks of serious injury in the domain of the pneumogastric nerve.
Such peripheral {199} irritation may reside also in the stomach, intestines, liver, or any organ to which the pneumogastric is distributed.
These symptoms, which may be combined with gastralgic paroxysms, are referred by Traube to transference of the irritation from the gastric to the pulmonary filaments of the pneumogastric nerve.
Electricity is sometimes employed to overcome the spasm; but intra-oesophageal electrization of every kind is risky from the danger of exciting fatal syncope from irritation of the pneumogastric nerve.
Galvanism of the cervical sympathetic, andpneumogastric nerves.
Iodine: painting the line of the pneumogastric nerve with liniment or tincture in pure spasmodic asthma.
The cause acts by producing a transitory paralysis of the inhibitory fibers of the pneumogastric nerve.
It communicates with the pneumogastric and sympathetic nerves.
From the physiological point of view it is perfectly clear that Cobra-venom especially affects the bulbar centres, and particularly the nuclei of origin of the pneumogastric nerve.
Death is always preceded by a period of asphyxia, indicating that the bulbar nuclei of the pneumogastric nerve have become affected.
Pathology of the Pneumogastric Nerve: Lumleian Lectures for 1876.
The carotid and right subclavian arteries will then be felt lying close together crossed by the pneumogastric and recurrent nerves, the latter turning behind the subclavian.
The right innominate vein and right pneumogastric are in close contact with the artery on the right side; to avoid them the aneurism-needle must be entered on the outside (right of the vessel).
Reflex pain may occur from disturbances of the pneumogastric nerve, or from the weight and pressure of the enlarged and heavy pericardium.
The shock to the heart may be a reflex one through the pneumogastric nerves.
Various stimuli coming through the pneumogastric nerves, either from above or from the peripheral endings in the stomach or intestines, may inhibit or slow the ventricular contractions.
Another valuable activity of digitalis is in slowing the heart by action on the pneumogastric nerves.
The power of the pneumogastric reflex to inhibit the action of the heart is, of course, easily demonstrated pharmacologically.
Stimulation of these nerves by the electric current, however, does not destroy the irritability of the heart; indeed, the heart may act by local stimulation after it has been stopped by pneumogastric stimulation.
The symptoms are mainly those of peripheral neuritis with special implication of the phrenic and the pneumogastric nerves.
But, first of all, I should depose That diabolic curve And author of my thousand woes, The pneumogastric nerve!
He taps me on the back and chest, And scans my tongue for bile, And lays an ear against my breast And listens there awhile; Then is he ready to admit That all he can observe Is something wrong inside, to wit: My pneumogastric nerve!
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