How to Use vagus nerve in a Sentence

vagus nerve

noun

• Called the vagus nerve when touching the neck makes the rhythm stop.
  — New York Times, 24 Nov. 2021
• Tracey thinks of it this way: The vagus nerve is like a brake line in a car.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Nov. 2021
• The gut and the brain are connected via the vagus nerve.
  — Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024
• That’s due, in part, to the vagus nerve, one of the main emotional centers of the body.
  — Hilary Jacobs Hendel, Time, 27 Feb. 2018
• So, some of that involves the vagus nerve, which connects the brain to the stomach.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 July 2022
• The vagus nerve goes down the neck and runs through the visceral organs.
  — Tim Hornyak, Scientific American, 10 May 2018
• The vagus nerve is the longest and most complex of the 12 cranial nerves, stretching from the brain to the abdomen.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2017
• Experts note that messages from the gut, in the form of immune signals, can be sent to the brain through the vagus nerve.
  — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2022
• The most powerful neural network in the body, called the vagus nerve.
  — Jeffrey Rediger, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2020
• The vagus nerve is the longest of the cranial nerves, which emerge directly from the brain rather than traveling through the spinal cord.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 4 July 2023
• When you are stressed, your body inhibits the signals that travel through the vagus nerve and slows down the digestive process.
  — The Conversation, oregonlive, 3 Apr. 2021
• And a lot of times, the vagus nerve or an interruption of the signals that might cause this reflex to happen.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 July 2022
• This reflex is named after the vagus nerve, which runs from your brain to your heart, lungs and digestive tract.
  — Anne R. Crecelius, The Conversation, 20 June 2019
• The vagus nerve sends signals to our brain that help enhance our memory of key events.
  — Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2022
• The medulla sends signals back through the vagus nerve to your diaphragm and the muscles between your ribs, telling them to contract.
  — Jenny Sweigard, Verywell Health, 1 July 2024
• This supplement also engages the vagus nerve to boost gut and brain health.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2022
• The vagus nerve is part of the parasympathetic nervous system, which helps the body rest and relax.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023
• The response is driven by the vagus nerve, as well as hormones like gastrin and histamine.
  — Matt Benoit, Discover Magazine, 18 Feb. 2023
• Stimulating the vagus nerve has been shown to help people feel calm—and to help the body mitigate the effects of stress.
  — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 14 Dec. 2021
• Singing tones the vagus nerve, and dancing brings presence with feelings of safety to the nervous system.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• The phrenic nerve controls the diaphragm, while the vagus nerve helps control the lungs and other internal organs.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2021
• This implant was used to gently but directly stimulate the man's vagus nerve over the course of months.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 28 Sep. 2017
• Now imagine that happening in the vagus nerve, up and down, passing messages between mind and body millions of times over the course of a day.
  — Jeffrey Rediger, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2020
• One likely pathway is the vagus nerve, a bundle of nerve fibers connecting all the major organs with the brain.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
• According to Klein, humming can stimulate the vagus nerve which helps the body to exit fight-flight mode.
  — Bree Grant, refinery29.com, 7 June 2024
• For more than 100 years, scientists have known that the vagus nerve carries signals between the organs and the brainstem.
  — Emily Underwood, Science | AAAS, 10 June 2021
• So, the sugar can kind of affect that vagus nerve, which connects your stomach to your brain, and overwhelm that nerve, causing the hiccups to stop.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 July 2022
• In a nutshell, the brain is connected to the gut through a two-way communication system called the vagus nerve.
  — The Conversation, oregonlive, 3 Apr. 2021
• The hormone also can latch on to receptors on the vagus nerve—a long cranial nerve that shuttles messages between the brain and organs throughout the body.
  — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
• So powerful is its influence, the vagus nerve can literally stop the beating heart.
  — R Douglas Fields, WIRED, 29 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024