esophagus

Approximately 600 times a day, the esophagus ferries whatever is in your mouth down to your stomach.

The syndrome is caused by a quirk in the muscle that acts as the gatekeeper to the esophagus, the roughly 10-inch-long muscular tube that moves food between the throat and the stomach.

However, May tore his esophagus — the muscular tube that passes food from the throat to the stomach — in a non-baseball setting.

This German study looked at 438 people with a type of cancer of the esophagus that can be treated with surgery.

Cincinnati Children's has been a leader in developing other types of organoids, including the world's first functional intestine, stomach and esophagus organoids.