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The vagus nerve, the 10th cranial nerve, has a superficial origin from the medulla oblongata with several rootlets which merge together while passing through the jugular foramen. It has two obvious bulges, a smaller one called the jugular (or superior) ganglion and a larger one immediately caudal to it called the nodose (or inferior) ganglion. It passes along the neck to the thorax and the abdomen, and its main branches are the auricular, pharyngeal, laryngeal, cardiac, pulmonary, oesophageal and abdominal branches.
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© 1976 Giorgio Gabella
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Gabella, G. (1976). The Vagus Nerve. In: Structure of the Autonomic Nervous System. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5745-9_8
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