vag-, vago- +

1. To lose clarity, or to turn aside; especially, from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking.
2. To wander or drift around; to ramble; to digress.

A wandering monk having no fixed monastery as his residence.

Going, or wandering, around in the night.

1. A wanderer who has no permanent place to live; nomadic.
2. A person without a permanent home who moves from place to place.
3. A beggar for food or money.
4. Irregular in course or behavior; unpredictable.

Traveling around without any clear destination.

1. To play the vagabond.
2. To wander about in idleness.

Surgical destruction of the vagus nerve.

1. Concerning vagolysis.
2. An agent, surgical or chemical, that prevents function of the vagus nerve.

Resembling action caused by the stimulation of the vagus nerve.

The cervical sympathetic and vagus nerves considered together.

Pertaining to a person or animal whose vagus nerves have been severed for therapeutic or experimental purposes.

1. Surgical division of vagus nerves.
2. Specifically, section of thoracic and abdominal vagal branches, usually for treatment of peptic ulcer; described as selective when only gastric branches are divided and as highly selective, or superselective, when only the gastric fundus and corpus are denervated, leaving the antrum and pylorus unaffected.

1. Hyperexcitability of the vagus nerve, producing bradycardia, decreased heart output, and faintness,
2. Overactivity or irritability of the vagus nerve, adversely affecting function of the blood vessels, stomach, and muscles.
3. Hyperexcitability of the vagus nerve, a condition in which the vagus nerve dominates in the general functioning of the body organs.

It is marked by vasomotor instability, constipation, sweating and involuntary motor spasms with pain.

Acting on the vagus nerve.

An affinity for the vagus nerve; such as, a drug.