Glossary Term: V
Vagus Nerve
The tenth cranial nerve, which supplies the throat, voice box, windpipe, lungs, heart, and gastrointestinal organs.
Vegan Diet
A strictly plant-based diet that eliminates all animal-based products and by-products, including meat, fish, poultry, eggs, dairy, honey, and gelatin.
Vegetarian Diet
A diet excluding meat of any kind, including seafood, poultry, and red meat.
Volition
The power of choosing or determining; an act of making a choice or decision; also a choice or decision made.