nœud vital

== French == === Etymology === Coined by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1802. === Noun === nœud vital m (plural nœuds vitals) (anatomy, botany) noeud vital === References === J. M. D. Olmsted (November 1944), “Historical note on the 'noeud vital' or respiratory center”, in Bulletin of the History of Medicine, volume 16, number 4, →JSTOR, pages 343-350