12156 IUPAC Gold Book - vagus nerve 10.1351/goldbook.12156 12156 current 1 Tenth cranial nerve, arising from the medulla oblongata. It carries parasympathetic and motor impulses to the larynx and pharynx, thoracic organs and abdominal viscera, as well as containing afferent fibers that supply information about the state of the organs to the central nervous system. afferent https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11571 cranial nerve https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11700 parasympathetic https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11993 PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 914 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0103) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12156/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12156/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12156/plain Citation: 'vagus nerve' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.12156 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-05-10T04:29:52+00:00