used as comb. f. of VAGUS in a few terms of Anat. or Med. in the sense ‘of or pertaining to, denoting, the vagus or pneumogastric nerve (and some other nerve or part),’ as vago-accessory, -glossopharyngeal, -sympathetic adjs.
1877. M. Foster, Physiol., III. i. (1878), 392. In the mixed vago-sympathetic trunk.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., IV. 860. Among bulbar nerves the vago-accessory is by far the most frequently attacked. Ibid. (1899), VI. 811. The hypoglossal root fibres lie in close proximity to those of the vago-glossopharyngeal nerve.
