What's the difference between gullet and oesophagus?

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.

Oesophagus


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Oesophageal

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
  • (2) In the present study, 125 oesophageal biopsies obtained under direct vision at endoscopy from 22 patients with Barrett's oesophagus were systematically studied using fluorescence and peroxidase antiperoxidase single and double-staining immunocytochemical methods employing highly specific antibodies to localize the following peptide-containing cell types in Barrett's mucosa: gastrin, somatostatin, gastric inhibitory polypeptide, motilin, neurotensin and pancreatic glucagon.
  • (3) After a review of the technical development and application of staplers from their introduction to the present day, the indications to the use of this instrument in all gastroenterological areas from the oesophagus to the rectum as well as in chest, gynaecological and urological surgery specified.
  • (4) Tuberculous oesophagitis is a very rare finding; of all organs, involvement of the oesophagus is the least likely.
  • (5) We now report on the Singapore Chinese experience, in which the following changes were notable: decreases in rates of cancers of the stomach and oesophagus and increases in rates of cancers of the lung, colon, rectum, skin (excluding melanoma), breast and ovary.
  • (6) Exacerbation of inflammation due to repeated traumatization of the oesophagus wall was accompanied by proliferation of the epithelial layers.
  • (7) Each group of cattle consisted of six permanent members, two members fistulated at the oesophagus and one worm-free tracer calf.
  • (8) The chance discovery of an oesophageal localisation of Crohn's disease led the authors to undertake routine study of the oesophagus in their last 18 patients suffering from the disorder.
  • (9) A patient with scleroderma of recent onset was found to have a carcinoma of the oesophagus.
  • (10) The experiments were carried out in dogs and cervical oesophagus replacement was performed using a jejunal loop.
  • (11) Results suggested that immediate proper assessment of the oesophagus and institution of appropriate therapy may reduce the incidence of complications associated with treatment of subsequent stricture formation.
  • (12) Fifty-six patients were operated upon by the method of Amdrup and Jensen (1970), including skeletonization of about 2 cm of the oesophagus.
  • (13) The interaction between the epithelial and connective-tissue structures was studied on 70 scarry changes in the oesophagus at various times (from 1 year to 45 years) following chemical burns.
  • (14) The analysis comprised a total of 37 human tissue specimens derived from patients who underwent surgery for cancer of the oesophagus in Linxian County (People's Republic of China); for comparison 12 tissue samples obtained from hospitals in Europe were similarly analysed.
  • (15) Perforation of the oesophagus, as well as a pneumothorax are described as complications of the use of a nasogastric feeding tube.
  • (16) Four patients with leiomyoma of the upper or middle third of the oesophagus treated by surgical excision are reported.
  • (17) The two forks of the GIA or the PLC 50 instrument are introduced into the oesophagus and jejunum, and the two organs are brought together at the hiatus.
  • (18) There is no satisfactory biomarker yet available for predicting the likelihood of premalignant changes or carcinoma developing in Barrett's or columnar lined oesophagus.
  • (19) It is therefore recommended that Aqueous Dionosil be used in preference to Gastrografin or Iopamidol for studies of the oesophagus whenever there is a danger of aspiration of contrast agent into the tracheobronchial tree.
  • (20) The proximal part of the oesophagus and hindgut were free of immunoreactive perkarya.