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 one of the 12 cranial nerves, which conduct impulses between the brain and other parts of the brain and va rious body structures, mostly in the head and neck. The vagus nerve-the longest of the cranial nerves-also extends to organs in the chest and abdomen.(The word vagus comes from a Latin word for wandering.') It serves many organs and structures, including the larynx (voice box), lungs, heart and gastrointestinal tract.he vagus nerve is one of the 12 cranial nerves, which conduct impulses between the brain and other parts of the brain and va rious body structures, mostly in the head and neck. The vagus nerve-the longest of the cranial nerves-also extends to organs in the chest and abdomen.