esophagus
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Gastrointestinal cancers include cancers of the esophagus, stomach, and colon or rectum.
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
Dodgers pitcher Dustin May talks about how he sustained a serious tear in his esophagus that derailed his hopes of returning to the mound last season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2025
In 14-hour shifts, dairy workers pumped gallons of electrolyte-rich fluids into ailing cows through metal tubes inserted into the esophagus.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024
Instead, it has five pseudohearts wrapped around its esophagus.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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
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
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
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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