1. in a manner relating to or involving the vagus nerve
Usage: medical

Examples

• The patient’s heart rate decreased vagally in response to the stimulation.
• The medication works vagally to reduce gastric acid secretion.
• Breathing exercises can vagally activate the parasympathetic nervous system.
• The reflex was mediated vagally through the tenth cranial nerve.
• Doctors observed that the response occurred vagally rather than through other neural pathways.