vaga-, 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 record of the electric changes occurring in the vagus nerve.

The vagus nerve supplies nerve fibers to the pharynx (throat), larynx (voice box), trachea (windpipe), lungs, heart, esophagus, and the intestinal tract as far as the transverse portion of the colon. This nerve also brings sensory information back to the brain from the ear, tongue, pharynx, and larynx.

The term vagus (Latin for "wandering") is appropriate because the "vagus nerve" wanders all the way down from the brainstem to the colon, a long wandering way.

1. Excessive or wasteful spending of money.
2. Something that is expensive or wasteful: "A car like that is an extravagance in today's economic situation."
3. An exaggerated, excessive, or extremely flamboyant nature of something: such as, a wild unreasonableness in someone's speech or behavior.

1. Characterized by excessive or wasteful spending: "His extravagant spending resulted in bankruptcy for his company."
2. Unreasonably high in price or cost.
3. Beyond what is reasonable or that which is exaggerated or unreasonable.
4. Etymology: from Medieval Latin (Latin as written and spoken about 700 to about 1500) extravagantem, originally a word in Canon Law for "uncodified papal decrees", from extravagari, "wander outside or beyond"; from Latin, extra, "outside of" + vagari, "to wander, to roam".

A wandering monk having no fixed monastery as his residence.

1. Vagrants' disease or a parasitic melanoderma or excoriations and melanoderma caused by scratching the bites of body louse; pediculus corporis.
2. Discoloration of the skin in people who are subject to louse bites over long periods of time.

1. Either of the longest pair of cranial nerves mainly responsible for parasympathetic control over the heart and many other internal organs, including thoracic and abdominal viscera.

The vagus nerves communicate through thirteen main branches, connecting to four areas in the brain.

2. Etymology: from Latin, vagus, "wandering" + nervus, "nerve".

Going, or wandering, around during the night: "The hedgehog is one example of a noctivagant animal."

1. Wandering around alone.
2. Characterized by doing things by oneself.

Wandering around by oneself or being alone as someone goes here and there; being solitary.

1. Irregular in course or behavior; unpredictable: "She had a vagabond behavior in that sometime she would clean her apartment and then not do it at all for several days."
2. Being wayward or capricious by nature.

1. A wanderer or a rover who has no permanent place to live; nomadic.
2. People without permanent homes who move wander from place to place.
3. A beggar for food or money.

1. To wander from place to place: "There are more people these days who are vagabonding around the city than during previous years."
2. Moving around aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment: "He has vagabonded here for most of his life."

1. Traveling around without any clear destination: "He is still living in vagabondage."
2. The state or condition of being a vagabond or a vagrant; that is, moving around in idleness: "They are still wandering around in vagabondage as they've been doing for years."

To wander around in idleness: "As a result of the economic situation, there seem to be more people who are vagabondizing throughout the country these days."