Check your grammar now! : a cart stocked with emergency medical equipment, supplies, and drugs for use by medical personnel especially during efforts to resuscitate a patient experiencing cardiac arrest.
The vagus nerve provides a speedy line of information to the brain from the gut, where battles with bacteria and viruses are continually raging. Knowledge of the vagus's role was a mystery until very recently, but we now know that you can learn about your body from your vagus.
The vagus nerve is two nerves that go through the brain stem and enter different parts of the body such as the heart and the stomach. Vagus nerve leaves the brain stem from the rootlets present in the medulla that has been found to be caudal to the rootlets in the ninth carnial nerve.The vagus nerve comprises of two sensory ganglia which are segmented into superior and inferior vagal ganglia. It can cause problems in the digestion of food in the stomach as it helps in peristalsis of the stomach. 2  Vagus nerve disorders can occur when there is pressure on the vagus nerve or due to other stimulation. 3  Sometimes people lose the vagus nerve in a cancer surgery.