esophagus

Example Sentences

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Or she operates the machine as the doctor guides a probe down the esophagus.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

NRF2 overactivity plays a major role in chemotherapy resistance in several solid tumors, including cancers of the liver, esophagus and head and neck.

From Science Daily • Nov. 17, 2025

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

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.

From Salon • Sep. 8, 2024

Instead, it has five pseudohearts wrapped around its esophagus.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti