esophagusin a sentence
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She has esophageal cancer.
esophageal = related to the passage food and drink follow between the back of the mouth and the stomach
- To be honest, I find the whole process of masticating plants and animals and then shoving them down my esophagus kind of disgusting, so I was trying not to think about the fact that I was eating, which is a form of thinking about it.† (source)
- Starting at the mouth, then the esophagus, stomach, intestines, and finishing at the anus, we were one long tube, with food coming in at one end and waste out the other.† (source)
- He couldn't fight off the image that they'd been swallowed by some gigantic beast and were sliding down its long esophagus, about to land in its stomach at any second.† (source)
- The swelling in Rémy's throat came on like an earthquake, and he lurched against the steering column, grabbing his throat and tasting vomit in his narrowing esophagus.† (source)
- It produced a tearing of the lung and heavy internal bleeding and also went through the esophagus.† (source)
- He can feel the lymph nodes on either side of his neck compressing his esophagus and trachea.† (source)
- Dysphagia is the medical term for not being able to swallow, and I know that there are two kinds of dysphagia: oropharyngeal and esophageal.† (source)
- 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.† (source)
- It felt like napalm flushing down my esophagus.† (source)
- I pounded the kitchen floor with all my strength, trying to swallow, and trying to concentrate on the bubble of air stuck in my esophagus.† (source)
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- "Keep your mouth shut around me," he says, his voice low, "or I will do this again, only next time, I'll shove it right through your esophagus."† (source)
- My stomach was working its way up my esophagus.† (source)
- It felt like it was stuck in my esophagus.† (source)
- He has swallowed the rest of the string, which holds an x-ray plate coated with aluminum jelly, dangling somewhere below the esophagus, to measure the radiation passing through his body.† (source)
- His heart throbbed until it had squeezed its way up into his esophagus.† (source)
- Braithwaite was a legend for having pioneered a new operation for esophageal cancer, a notoriously difficult condition to cure.† (source)
- He needs an operation to sew up his esophagus for about three months.† (source)
- Can't stand the protest of an upset stomach, the heave of bile and undigested food, the carve of acid in the esophagus.† (source)
- He shoves two fingers down Lincoln's throat and presses down on the back of the tongue, just in case food or drink is clogged in the esophagus.† (source)
- It did no good to gulp it down quickly, because it coated the lining of mouth and esophagus like a thick layer of glue.† (source)
- It washed back up my esophagus, but I swallowed hard, and there, yes, I did it.† (source)
- Unfortunately, my esophagus didn't believe me.† (source)
- Something like a bubble of helium made its way up my esophagus.† (source)
- Totally Puked Out Esophagus acid-etched, I'm ready to face the day.† (source)
- He doubled over, shuddering and retching, as a dozen fiery snakes seemed to work their way down his esophagus.† (source)
- Frau von Mallinckrodt suffered by turns from various internal inflammations—of the pleura, the kidneys, the lungs, the periosteum, even of the brain, which would cause her to lapse into unconsciousness; a weak heart, the result of fever and constant pain, was her greatest worry, for it sometimes resulted in food becoming lodged at the top of the esophagus, making it difficult for her to swallow normally.† (source)
- While Mr. Stowbody gave a somatic and psychic study of them, Carol reflected, "Are they really so terribly interested in Ella's tonsils, or even in Ella's esophagus?† (source)
- Also, to distract myself from the Belch of Doom that was lurking in my esophagus, I was looking away at a picture of a turkey.† (source)
- In the same way American usage prefers /esophagus/, /diarrhea/ and /gonorrhea/ to the English /oesophagus/, /diarrhoea/ and /gonorrhoea/.† (source)
- They promise to come in as /honor/, /bark/, /check/, /wagon/ and /story/ came in many years ago, as /tire/,[29] /esophagus/ and /theater/ came in later on, as /program/, /catalog/ and /cyclopedia/ came in only yesterday, and as /airplane/ (for /aëroplane/)[30] is coming in today.† (source)
- In the same way American usage prefers /esophagus/, /diarrhea/ and /gonorrhea/ to the English /oesophagus/, /diarrhoea/ and /gonorrhoea/.† (source)
- [18] They also support the /ae/ in such words as /aetiology/, /aesthetics/, /mediaeval/ and /anaemia/, and the /oe/ in /oesophagus/, [Pg258] /manoeuvre/ and /diarrhoea/.† (source)
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