What's the difference between esophagus and vestibulum?
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.
Vestibulum
Definition:
(n.) A cavity into which, in certain bryozoans, the esophagus and anus open.
Example Sentences:
(1) 53 cases were all marsupialized into the oral vestibulum.
(2) In both cases an anomaly of the inner ear was found, consisting of bilateral cystic dilatation of the cochlea and the vestibulum.
(3) Vestibulum-cheek flaps were used to close the fistula in 97% of the cases.
(4) To create and restore a sufficiently broad gingiva propria and to deepen the vestibulum, the new wound area should be covered by a graft which at the same time counteracts resorption of the alveolar bone.
(5) The stapes was extracted from the vestibulum the same day and was fixed to the incus with fibrin sealant in an anatomical position.
(6) The prolapses started from the submucosal layer of the proximal part of the vestibulum vaginae.
(7) A horseshoe-like operculum having no cilia was present at the center of the adoral ciliary zone, and the opening of the vestibulum was situated as a cleft crossing from the center to the right periphery of this zone.
(8) The epithelium was examined from the "portio vaginalis cervicis uteri" down to the "vestibulum".
(9) A new technique is shown for a one-stage reconstruction of the mucosa of the floors of the nose and maxillary sinus, the bone structures of the maxilla and the hard palate, as well as the mucosal layers of the hard and soft palates and vestibulum.
(10) The epithelium of normal human alveolar mucosa originating from the anterior vestibulum was subjected to stereologic analysis.
(11) They are: rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) of the nose and the ethmoid sinuses, RMS of the nasal vestibulum, nasopharyngeal lymphoma malignum.
(12) The author reports on a rare case of direct injury of the middle ear with elective luxation of the stapes in vestibulum, where the rest of the ossicular chain was intact.
(13) In addition malformations from the VACTERL-association (sacral malformation, anal atresia with vestibulum fistula, renal dysplasia, only eleven pairs of ribs with hypoplasia of the eleventh one, diplopodia on the left foot) were found.
(14) The case of a 39-year-old male patient is reported who had two filiform wartlike lesions at the vestibulum of the nose.
(15) In the cochlea, fluorescence was observed in the organ of Corti, the spiral ganglion, the nerve fibres, the vascular stria and Reissner's membrane; in the vestibulum, fluorescence was seen in the crista ampullaris and the planum semilunatum.
(16) There was no bony separation between the irregularly dilated inner auditory canal and the vestibulum.
(17) In view of these excessive displacements, compared to inner ear dimensions, piston prostheses should always dip into the vestibulum in the lower half of the footplate, far from endolymphatic membranes.
(18) We report on a 22-year old patient with an ectopic ureter ending in the vestibulum of the vagina without genital malformations.
(19) We report two cases of non periodic alternating nystagmus, one of vascular origin (ischemia of the vertebrobasilar territory) and a second of traumatic origin (whiplash injury) with otoneurological signs, typical of lesions in posterior cranial fossa and in particular of vestibulum-cerebellum and brainstem: gaze paretic nystagmus, rebound nystagmus, saccadic dysmetria, vestibular hyperreflexia and impaired visual suppression test.
(20) The cartilages of vestibulum nasi in rats of different ages (newborns, 1 week, 1 month and 12 months old) were studied immunohistochemically using monoclonal antibodies against glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and S-100 protein.