esophagus
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Without proper treatment, the lining of the esophagus, which is the tube that carries food and water to your stomach, can be badly damaged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Scientists have proposed several explanations for why the esophagus appears more strongly affected than other parts of the digestive tract.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Or she operates the machine as the doctor guides a probe down the esophagus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
But, days away from returning to live game action, May went to dinner in Arizona on July 10 and tore his esophagus on a bite of a salad that got lodged in his throat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025
It felt like napalm flushing down my esophagus.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
Radiographs and other examination procedures revealed that the snake also has two tracheas and two esophagi, but only one heart and a set of lungs.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2018
Oscar Mayer All Meat Wieners do not contain esophagi, ears, lips and snouts; they do not contain poultry meat or "binders" like dried milk, cereal or flour.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later examinations showed the surgeon that tissue and some mucous membrane had grown up along the outer walls of the plastic tubes, giving the dogs what amounted to new esophagi.
From Time Magazine Archive
Federal law allows hot dogs to contain such animal features as esophagi, ears, lips and snouts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such febrifuges as masquerade under that name are barely recognisable by authentic connoisseurs, by Rabelaises of sensitive esophagi, by true lovers of subtly concocted gin and vermouth and bitters.
From Europe After 8:15 by Thomas H. Benton
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