Friendly senior on Instagram: "Vagus nerve (Cranial Nerve X) 🧠✨ “The wanderer 🌿 — longest cranial nerve Origin: Medulla (nucleus ambiguus + dorsal motor nucleus) Exit skull via Jugular foramen 🦴 Course: neck → thorax → abdomen (till transverse colon) Functions 👇 🔹 Parasympathetic supply to heart ❤️ (↓HR), lungs 🫁 (bronchoconstriction), GIT 🍽️ (↑motility & secretion) 🔹 Motor: soft palate, pharynx, larynx → voice 🎤 & swallowing 🔹 Sensory: larynx, pharynx, part of ear 👂 🔹 Taste from epi

ILL HUMORS on Instagram: "This video demonstrates a rapid ingestion attempt that triggers a common biological defense mechanism. The Subject The individual attempts to consume a whole hard-boiled egg in a single motion, aiming for a speed-based performance record. The Mechanism As the solid object is forced toward the throat, it triggers the pharyngeal reflex, or gag reflex. This is an involuntary contraction of the back of the throat designed to prevent choking by rejecting foreign objects that