What is "esophageal"

Usage examples of "esophageal".

There is an instance of a soldier who swallowed a bone while eating soup, who died on the thirty-first day from the rupture internally of an esophageal abscess.

Shortly afterward the esophageal tube was removed and recovery was virtually complete.

Fulton mentions a case of rupture of the esophageal end of a stomach in a child.

A ragged opening at the esophageal orifice, on the anterior surface of the stomach was found.

It was also probably the sword-swallower who showed the physicians to what extent the pharynx could be habituated to contact, and from this resulted the invention of the tube of Faucher, the esophageal sound, ravage of the stomach, and illumination of this organ by electric light.

Interestingly, they did not snap, but rotated rapidly around a central esophageal axis.

According to county medical records, Cynthia Moore drank liquid drain cleaner and died of esophageal hemorrhaging and asphyxiation three months after her child had died of no apparent cause.

Then something called an esophageal rupture happened, then peritonitis, then around sunrise she was dead.

Cynthia Moore drank liquid drain cleaner and died of esophageal hemorrhaging and asphyxiation three months after her child had died of no apparent cause.

His best drawing so far, done in ink and colored pencils and showing a cross section of the esophageal tract and the airways, was tacked to a rafter above the table.

Years of alcohol abuse had caused him to develop esophageal varices, varicose veins in his throat, which had then ruptured.

We were, I can say, stunning, dramatic: logo-covered Gore-Tex laminated directly on our skin, Camel-Bak bags automatically pouring water through esophageal piping in response to computerized blood-density readings.

The equipment consists of a series of valves and chambers that effectively link the esophageal tube to the innominate artery and thus the circulatory system.

He was making them laugh even three years later as he lay in his bedroom, dying of esophageal cancer, eyes glassy with morphine, telling stories about Padeen the bogtrotter in a hoarse whisper while his old mates visited and sometimes held his hand when the pain was especially bad.