Medical Term:
ambiguous
Pronunciation: am-big′yū-ŭs
Definition:
- Having more than one interpretation.
- In anatomy, wandering; having more than one direction.
- In neuroanatomy, applied to a nucleus (nucleus ambiguus) supplying special visceral efferent fibers to the vagus and glossopharyngeal nerves.
[L. ambiguus, fr. ambigo, to wander]
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