What's the difference between esophagus and hypopharynx?
Esophagus
Definition:
(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.
Hypopharynx
Definition:
(n.) An appendage or fold on the lower side of the pharynx, in certain insects.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) Three hundred sixteen female patients with cancer of the larynx, pharynx, and mouth were examined and the following cancer sites were compared with respect to alcohol and tobacco consumption: oropharynx, hypopharynx, larynx, epilarynx, lip, and mouth.
(3) Patients with advanced carcinomas of the hypopharynx or upper esophagus have among the worst prognoses in head and neck oncology.
(4) A retrospective review of 16 consecutive cases of squamous carcinoma of the hypopharynx treated by pharyngo-laryngo-oesophagectomy (PLO) and gastric transposition with a thoracotomy as part of the surgical technique is presented.
(5) In conclusion, induction chemotherapy followed by radiation therapy may omit radical surgery, without compromising survival, in some patients with locally advanced cancer of the oral cavity, oropharynx and hypopharynx.
(6) A method of replacement of the hypopharynx and cervical esophagus utilizing a microvascular jejunal transplant has been presented.
(7) The colic graft was anastomosed to the hypopharynx in 43 cases, to the oropharynx in 14 cases, and in 33 cases a pharyngoplasty was done.
(8) The larynx-hypopharynx-esophagusresection of Ong and Lee (1960) whould be prefered if the rumour involves the orifice of the esophagus, because an extensive submucosal growth of the carcinoma is to be expected.
(9) Three cases of traumatic perforation and pseudodiverticulum of the hypopharynx in newborn infants are presented.
(10) We describe an additional patient in whom this lesion occurred as a primary neoplasm of the hypopharynx.
(11) Whether the occlusion between hypopharynx and esophagus is established by anatomical relations and tissue elasticity or by a functional resting tone of the muscle fibers is not quite clear.
(12) HRP-labeled cells were hardly observed when HRP was applied to the hypopharynx.
(13) Morbidity (1%) occurred in patients with triangular bones in the hypopharynx, resulting in one mucosal tear and two lengthy procedures.
(14) Anatomically, six patients had tumors of the oral cavity, twelve in the pharynx, one in the nasopharynx, four in the larynx, one in the hypopharynx, one in the maxillary antrum, and one was an unknown primary.
(15) Magnetic resonance imaging has revolutionized the imaging of head and neck malignancies and is now rapidly replacing computed tomography as the study of choice in the majority of lesions in the head, neck, larynx, hypopharynx, oropharynx, paranasal sinuses, paranasopharynx, and skull base.
(16) Forty-two patients have undergone gastric interposition to replace the pharyngoesophagus; 39 patients had primary or recurrent malignant tumors of the hypopharynx, cervical esophagus, postcrioid area, or tracheal stoma, while three patients had benign disease.
(17) Using this technique we have had no mortality attributed to mediastinitis in patients with mediastinitis due to perforation of the hypopharynx, cervical and thoracic esophagus.
(18) From these data, we conclude that the site of inspiratory narrowing within the upper airway during sleep occurs primarily at either the level of the palate or hypopharynx and is variable among subjects.
(19) Lipomas of the hypopharynx are uncommon tumors that are rarely life threatening.
(20) Carcinoma of the hypopharynx tends to present late and to occur in old age.