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.
And the vagus nerve brings sensory information back from the ear, tongue, pharynx and larynx. The term vagus (Latin for wandering) is apt because the vagus nerve wanders all the way down from the brainstem to the colon, a long wandering trek. Complete interruption of the vagus nerve causes a characteristic syndrome.The back part of the palate (the soft palate) droops on that side.The capacity to gag (the gag reflex) is also lost on that side.nd the vagus nerve brings sensory information back from the ear, tongue, pharynx and larynx. The term vagus (Latin for wandering) is apt because the vagus nerve wanders all the way down from the brainstem to the colon, a long wandering trek. Complete interruption of the vagus nerve causes a characteristic syndrome.