(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.
Pyrosis
Definition:
(n.) See Water brash, under Brash.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twice daily the patients recorded the number of episodes of retrosternal pain, regurgitation, and pyrosis on a diary card during a trial period of 1 week and during the 1st and 5th study week.
(2) The clinical course of a patient with pyrosis and intractable hiccups is presented.
(3) Preexisting esophageal or gastric disorders were present in 50% of those with esophageal obstruction, including peptic stricture, pyrosis, hiatal hernia, esophagitis, gastric stapling procedure, Schatzki ring, and muscular dystrophy.
(4) Its presence was suggested clinically by the symptoms (pyrosis, dysphagia, acid regurgitations) and confirmed in 5 patients by the barium examination in Trendelenburg and in the remainder of 10 by the esophageal pH, determination of gastroesophageal motility and endoscopic examination.
(5) 1 patient decided to discontinue the trial because of gastric pyrosis while taking the active drug.
(6) A 57-year-old white man presenting frequent recurrent chest and precordial pain, heartburn (pyrosis) and post-prandial vomiting for the previous 33 years (one to two years after Bilroth II gastrectomy) was submitted to cardiovascular, endoscopic, radiologic and biochemical studies with negative results.
(7) Continuous poor appetite and pyrosis were reported by about 5% of subjects.
(8) Pyrosis is mentioned in the literature as present in 40% of the cases, but it is considered mainly as symptom of coexistent hiatal hernia.
(9) Antacids are often the first therapeutic approach in patients with pyrosis.
(10) Side effects were encountered in 3 patients treated with naproxene (2 cases of epigastralgia and pyrosis and 1 case of dyspnea so marked as to require suspension of treatment) and in 3 treated with DAR (modest diarrhea).
(11) All 12 patients had complete resolution of pyrosis and healed esophagitis by six months, but no significant endoscopic regression was observed in the extent of Barrett's epithelium.
(12) Tolerance to the drug was, however, satisfactory; nausea, pyrosis, and vomiting were the only frequent side effects.
(13) Twelve of them had gastroesophageal reflux (GER) manifested by either digestive (vomiting, dysphagia, pyrosis, haemorrhage or foreign body impaction) or respiratory symptoms (repeated neumoniae or frequent u.r.i.).
(14) This open trial was conducted in 50 pregnant women, presenting during the 2nd and 3rd trimesters of their pregnancy typical symptoms of gastro-esophageal reflux (pyrosis, regurgitations, retro-sternal burning sensations, dyspepsia, epigastric burning).
(15) Pyrosis, epigastric pain, sense of epigastric repletion and foul-tasting mouth were considered on a scale from 0 to 4 attributed by the patient.
(16) Due to insufficient casual therapy of oral symptoms of dyniae and pyrosis, we applied infrared soft laser in treatment of patients with those oral symptoms.
(17) In 5 patients the following side effects occurred: 2 cases of allergic exanthema, 2 cases of mild diarrhoe and 1 case of pyrosis.
(18) All patients with Barrett's esophagus had pyrosis and 31 of the 42 patients had erosive esophagitis.
(19) Slight and transient episodes of pyrosis or epigastric pain represented the great majority of S.E.
(20) epigastric pain, pyrosis, nausea, vomiting and headache.