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#1 2015-05-01 09:09:33

Peter Forster
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From: UK
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'vaguest/vagueness nerve' for 'vagus nerve'

For most us the whereabouts of every nerve is sketchy at best, and its function similarly hazy. So much for the alternative imagery. The Latin vagus means wandering or rambling and vague, vagabond and vagrant are apparently from the same root.

Acetylcholine: first discovered neurotransmitter in 1920, early researchers stimulated the vaguest nerve (activated internal organs). When they stimulated the …

My only “hot flash” issue had to do with what I eat. My vagueness nerve (in stomach) gets mad at vinegar & pepper.

Yoga also stimulates our vaguest nerve (a nerve that runs from the back of the neck to our perineum), says Weintraub. Stimulating this nerve is one way some practitioners treat depression.

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#2 2015-05-01 23:18:35

DavidTuggy
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From: Mexico
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Re: 'vaguest/vagueness nerve' for 'vagus nerve'

Good ’un.


*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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#3 2015-05-12 11:19:38

David Bird
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From: The Hammer, Ontario
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Re: 'vaguest/vagueness nerve' for 'vagus nerve'

I am amazed that I have an idea of what the vacuous nerve does
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Vegas Nerve: I have been trying to find out about all the things that the Vegas nerve effects. I know that a pinched Vegas nerve because of a Hiatal Hernia can cause the heart to race and the digestive system to be out of whack
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