(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.
Heartburn
Definition:
(n.) An uneasy, burning sensation in the stomach, often attended with an inclination to vomit. It is sometimes idiopathic, but is often a symptom of often complaints.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nausea and heartburn occurred in 3 cases only and were controlled by reducing the dosage.
(2) A 62-year-old man with severe heartburn and persistent hiccups despite numerous diagnostic tests and therapeutic drug trials presented to our clinic.
(3) We speculate that hormone-related impairment of distal oesophageal clearance mechanisms may have a crucial bearing on whether heartburn develops in those individuals at greatest risk.
(4) Heartburn was induced by a meal consisting of chili, black coffee, and a spicy tomato drink mix.
(5) Heartburn was the most common symptom, more frequent in females than in males (p less than 0.01).
(6) Primary symptoms include dysphagia, odynophagia, heartburn and central chest pain.
(7) Symptoms of heartburn, regurgitation, and dysphagia were absent or minimal in most patients.
(8) The occurrence of heartburn did not correlate with the extent of reflux in the pH study.
(9) However, onions significantly increased all measures in heartburn subjects, compared with the no-onion condition, and compared with normals under the onion condition.
(10) Heartburn and epigastric pain, monitored every other week, were significantly relieved by both treatments, but to a significantly greater extent (70% vs 20% on average, p less than 0.01) and significantly faster (p less than 0.01) in the presence of triletide.
(11) 90 patients living more than 3 months complained of the following: heartburn, 18 (20%); reflux, 12 (13.3%); retrosternal pain, 3 (3.3%); stenotic sensation, 23 (25.6%); diarrhea, 10 (11.1%); abdominal pain, 14 (15.6%); and dumping syndrome, 6 (6.7%).
(12) Only ranitidine significantly reduced heartburn frequency and severity.
(13) 1) Symptom relief: Cisapride, usually at a dose of 10 mg t.i.d., was superior to placebo and metoclopramide in relief of daytime and night-time heartburn and regurgitation.
(14) Although heartburn, thought to indicate reflux of gastric contents into the oesophagus, occurs frequently in pregnant women during the last trimester, its aetiology is not clear.
(15) No patient experienced symptoms while swallowing water but one complained of heartburn and one developed symptomatic oesophageal 'spasm' during eating.
(16) Six subjects had mild subjective side effects after zindotrine (headache, dizziness, vertigo, flushing, and heartburn) compared with one report of lightheadedness after placebo.
(17) Logistic regression analysis showed increased risk of suffering heartburn with increasing gestational age (P < 0.0001), pre-pregnancy heartburn (P < 0.0001), parity (P < 0.0001) and inversely with maternal age (P < 0.05) but not with body mass index before pregnancy, race, or weight gain in pregnancy.
(18) Patients with gastroesophageal reflux often describe heartburn after "spicy meals."
(19) Heartburn, the most common presenting symptom, was abolished in 85.5% and epigastric pain in 84.6% of patients.
(20) Despite randomization of endoscopically normal patients, those treated with ranitidine had significantly more heartburn at baseline.