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œsophagus|iːˈsɒfəgəs|
Also 5–6 ysophagus, 6 isofagus, hysophagus, oisophagus, 8–9 esophagus.
[mod.L., a. Gr. οἰσοϕάγος the gullet; of uncertain origin (see below). The med. and early mod.L. representatives of Gr. οἰ-, were i-, -y: cf. F. ysophague (14th c. in Littré).]
The tube or canal (in man and the higher animals musculo-membranous) extending from the mouth to the stomach, and serving for the passage of food and drink; the gullet.
In Zool. extended to include a canal in any class of animals by which food enters the organism.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxiv. (MS. Bodl.) lf. 14/1 Ysophagus, þat is þe wey of mete and drinke. 1525tr. Jerome of Brunswick's Surg. I iij b/2 The throwte goll callyd hysophagus and trachea. 1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. F ij b, The Meri otherwyse called Ysophagus is y⊇ way of the mete & this Meri commeth out of the throte and thyrleth the mydryfe vnto y⊇ bely or stomacke. 1543Traheron tr. Vigo's Chirurg. i. iv. 6 Called Meri or Oisophagus. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. iv. 45 note, The Œsophagus, or meat-pipe conveying meats and drinks to the stomach. 1772Nugent tr. Hist. Friar Gerund I. 159 The enterance to the Esophagus being discovered. 1888Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 840 Protozoa... Class Mastigophora... A mouth and oesophagus sometimes present.
[Note. Aristotle Hist. An. 1. 16. 495a 18 says ‘the so-called οἰσοϕάγος, which gets its name from its length and its narrowness’, but does not explain how. According to its elements, Gk. οἰσοϕάγος ought to mean ‘eater of osiers’; which seems inept. A late Greek or Byzantine Scholiast on Oppian, explains it as from οἴω (an imaginary pres. to οἴσω) = κοµίζω I carry + ϕαγεῖν to eat, which, though plausible in sense, is really impossible, -ϕάγος in all compounds meaning ‘eating (something)’, ‘eater’.] |