esophageal opening

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• esophageal opening in diaphragm — hiatus oesophageus …   Medical dictionary

• Esophageal atresia — Classification and external resources Common anatomical types of esophageal atresia a) Esophageal atresia with distal tracheoesophageal fistula (86%). b) Isolated esophageal atresia without tracheoesophageal fistula (7%). c) H type… …   Wikipedia

• Esophageal speech — Esophageal speech, also known as esophageal voice, is a method of speech production that involves oscillation of the esophagus. This contrasts with traditional laryngeal speech which involves oscillation of the vocal folds. Instead, air is… …   Wikipedia

• Esophageal web — Classification and external resources ICD 10 Q39.4 …   Wikipedia

• Esophageal stricture, acute — A narrowing or closure of the normal opening of the swallowing tube leading to the stomach, usually caused by scarring from acid irritation. Acute, complete obstruction of the esophagus occurs when food (usually meat) is lodged in the esophageal… …   Medical dictionary

• opening — A gap in or entrance to an organ, tube, or cavity. SEE ALSO: aperture, fossa, ostium, orifice, pore. access o. SYN: access. aortic o. SYN: aortic hiatus …   Medical dictionary

• [o]esophageal sensor — aortic second sound, opening snap …   Medical dictionary

• Hiatus — An opening, as in the diaphragm. When there is an unusually wide opening in the diaphragm, there can be a hiatus (or hiatal) hernia. In Latin an hiatus is an opening, gaping mouth, or chasm. It is derived from the verb hiare meaning to gape or… …   Medical dictionary

• Hernia — Classification and external resources Frontal chest X ray showing a hernia of Morgagni ICD 10 K …   Wikipedia

• Left gastric vein — Vein: Left gastric vein The portal vein and its tributaries. Latin vena gastrica sinistra Gray s …   Wikipedia

• cardia — The area of the stomach close to the esophageal opening (cardiac orifice or c.) that contains the cardiac glands. SYN: pars cardiaca gastricae [TA], cardiac part of stomach, cardial part of stomach, gastric c., pars cardiaca ventriculi. [G.… …   Medical dictionary