(n.) That part of the alimentary canal between the pharynx and the stomach; the gullet. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nine months later, the animals were sacrificed, the esophagus and the gastric stump were removed for histologic examination.
(2) Oral administration in domestic cats causes malignant hepatomas and tumors of the esophagus and kidney.
(3) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
(4) Cancer of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus has decreased in all Japanese migrants, but the decrease is much greater among Okinawan migrants, suggesting they have escaped exposure to risk factors peculiar to the Okinawan environment.
(5) A 25-year-old woman presented with a giant leiomyoma in the lower third of the esophagus.
(6) During this 3-week period of no esophagus, the nutritional status can be adequately maintained by intravenous hyperalimentation.
(7) In adenocarcinoma of the distal esophagus and stomach, EUS prediction of stages T1 to T3 correlated well with the actual rate of R0 resection.
(8) During a 25-year period, four patients with esophageal diverticulum associated with carcinoma of the esophagus underwent surgery.
(9) To decrease the incidence of postoperative leakage, we used the Gambee's method of single layer anastomosis in cervical esophagogastrostomy for carcinoma of the hypopharynx and superior segment of the esophagus.
(10) Dairy pipeline cleaners were the single most common causative substance, injuring ten toddlers (mean age 1.6 years), perforating the esophagus in two.
(11) We have reported the first case in the English literature in which there is a strong association between long-term immunosuppressive therapy and squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus.
(12) Pure sarcomas of the esophagus are exceedingly rare.
(13) Deep body temperature was recorded from the tympanic membrane, oral cavity, esophagus, and rectum.
(14) Case histories of two patients with hypertensive LES and normal peristalsis in the body of the esophagus are contrasted to that of a patient with a hypertensive LES and diffuse esophageal spasm.
(15) The results suggested that Bulbus allii had a preventive action against carcinoma of the esophagus, which could be attributed to increasing the immunity.
(16) We have found 20 cases of ectopic gastric mucosa in the proximal esophagus.
(17) Within 2 days after surgical correction of the bronchoesophageal fistula, peristalsis in the thoracic portion of the esophagus returned to normal and the esophagus resumed its normal size.
(18) On bronchogram and pulmonary arteriogram, the trachea and right bronchus were compressed and shifted with the anomalous origin of left pulmonary artery which originated from the right pulmonary artery and passed between the trachea and esophagus.
(19) Atropine stimulated significantly the rat liver and esophagus carcinogenesis, whereas the alpha-adrenoblocking agent, a pyrrhoxane analogue, and, particularly, proserine inhibited these processes.
(20) Patients with advanced carcinomas of the hypopharynx or upper esophagus have among the worst prognoses in head and neck oncology.
Gullet
Definition:
(n.) The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus.
(n.) Something shaped like the food passage, or performing similar functions
(n.) A channel for water.
(n.) A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
(n.) A concave cut made in the teeth of some saw blades.
Example Sentences:
(1) The incidence of sarcocysts was investigated microscopically after 0.25% trypsin action in the muscles of bovine gullet and diaphragmal columns of pigs.
(2) It was a speech that might well have stuck in the gullet of any Greeks or Spaniards who happened to be watching.
(3) It can be placed at the time of original surgery and is also workable in patients who have had radiation and extensive radical surgery with total reconstruction of their gullet.
(4) Concomitant with the outbreak, the supermarket implicated in the outbreak purchased an unusually large quantity of beef (7,000 pounds) from a nonregular supplier in Nebraska, which had reportedly instituted the practice of trimming gullets (a procedure that removes the muscles from bovine larynx for beef) about three months earlier.
(5) The essential part of this technique consists of the construction of a tracheo-esophageal shunt using only the remainder of the trachea obtained at the time of laryngectomy to reestablish an air communication between the trachea and the gullet.
(6) To give a true representation of vitamin amounts actually consumed, different forms of calculating losses on the way from harvesting or producing foods to the gullet have been applied.
(7) Esophageal carcinomas are visualized endosonographically as localized thickenings of the gullet wall with disruption of its echo-layers.
(8) Sometimes adjective-rich tributes to the great departing rather stick in the gullet.
(9) While there was nothing disgraceful about the behaviour of Mr Finegold, it had "stuck in his gullet" for Mr Livingstone to apologise.
(10) As an alternative to this, staple closure of the gullet has been growing in acceptance and implementation as a mucosal eversion technique.
(11) There is no cytotoxic effect on animal (kidney of monkey) and human (carcinoma of the gullet) cellular cultures.
(12) In patients with oesophageal corrosive stricture which needs operation, both a by-pass procedure and resection can be adopted, but it should be pointed out that malignancy may develop even years after the operation in the remaining part of the gullet.
(13) First, the mucosa is sufficient to restore a new gullet.
(14) Traditionally, gullet closure that is done after a laryngectomy has been accomplished with tedious and time-consuming suturing procedures.
(15) Bovine thyroid tissue had been introduced into the neck trimmings inadvertently during the process of "gullet trimming," a procedure that harvests muscles from the bovine larynx.
(16) More than 50% of the complains are of the nose-gullet which decrease with the increase of the length of service, while the objective changes in the mucous membrane of the nose raise high.
(17) Defective relaxation of the cricopharyngeal muscle (cricopharyngeal dysfunction) is radiographically demonstrated as a posterior impression into the pharyngo-esophageal segment of the gullet in patients with dysphagia.
(18) Manometric testing showed that no swallowing pressure was produced in the reconstructed gullet; therefore, bolus propulsion at the pharyngeal stage occurs mainly by gravity.
(19) The follow up in 19 patients over the last four years showed that the pectoralis major flap is a good alternative for partial reconstructions of the upper gullet, provided that a mucosal strip of 2 cm can be preserved and that secondary shrinkage of the muscle pedicle is allowed for.
(20) Compared with the other two groups of patients studied the patients with cricopharyngeal dysfunction were found to have a slightly wider gullet above and below the cricopharyngeal muscle.