Sentence examples for esophagus from inspiring English sources

The device is inserted at the stoma site and into an opening that is made surgically between the trachea and the esophagus in a procedure known as tracheoesophageal puncture.

The esophagus is similarly used in sound production by the button quails and by rails of the genus Sarothrura.

Feeding on invertebrate organisms, as small as a few millimetres (perhaps 0.25 inch) in length, is facilitated by the gill rakers on the surface of the gill arches; they strain small organisms from a stream of water passing over the gills and funnel them to the esophagus.

The trouts have a primitive type of swim bladder with a connecting duct from the bladder to the esophagus.

The thoracic part of the esophagus is particularly difficult to reach, but in 1909 the British surgeon Arthur Evans successfully operated on it for cancer.

The forestomach is actually a dilation of the esophagus and is lined with simple epithelium (layers of flattened cells).

The nervous system, which consists of two principal ganglia, or nerve centres, encircles the esophagus and sends branches to other parts of the body.

In the Anoplura the esophagus passes straight into the large midgut with or without a swelling forming a crop.

It is located in the chest (thoracic) cavity behind the breastbone (sternum), in front of the windpipe (trachea), the esophagus, and the descending aorta, between the lungs, and above the diaphragm (the muscular partition between the chest and abdominal cavities).

The intrinsic muscles of the stomach are innervated by branches of the vagus nerves, which travel along the esophagus from their point of emergence in the brain stem.

Bacterial croup, also called epiglottitis, is a more serious condition that is often caused by Haemophilus influenzae type B. It is characterized by marked swelling of the epiglottis, a flap of tissue that covers the air passage to the lungs and that channels food to the esophagus.