单词 | oesophageal |
释义 | oesophagealesophagealadj. Of or relating to the oesophagus. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > throat or gullet > [adjective] throated1530 guttural1594 jugulary1626 gutturine1692 oesophagal1778 oesophageal1786 throatal1847 oesophagiac1858 oesophagean1882 perioesophageal1890 tracheo-œsophageal1897 oesophagogastric1954 1786 J. Aitken Princ. Anat. & Physiol. I. 160 Oesophageal arteries. The arteriæ œsophageæ..are small, going off from the anterior part of the aorta below the bronchial arteries. 1798 C. Bell Syst. of Dissections 43 The oesophageal arteries are sent off in small twigs to the œsophagus, as the aorta passes parallel to it in the posterior mediastinum. 1807 E. Home in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 97 157 The orifices of the œsophageal glands. 1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 22 The lower side of the œsophageal ring. 1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 215 A case of œsophageal obstruction. 1907 Science 29 Mar. 491/2 It will probably be shown before long that the œsophageal wall alone is also capable of contributing to the function of carrying the food down to the stomach. 1940 Proc. Royal Soc. 1939–40 B. 128 540 The other suggestion..was that a pathological condition of the oesophageal valve occasionally enabled the virus to be regurgitated directly into the plant. 1969 R. F. Chapman Insects iii. 50 The foregut is innervated..from the intervening recurrent and oesophageal nerves. 1984 R. Bakker Dinosaur Heresies (1988) iii. 72 Down goes a little masticated food accompanied by minor contractions of our tongue and esophageal apparatus. 1992 Guardian 23 Nov. 23/5 [Clinton] suffers from something called oesophageal reflux, an odd complaint which is rather like a superburp, in which stomach acid surges up into the throat. 1997 Sunday Post (Glasgow) 4 May 40/3 Oesophageal varices are swollen blood vessels at the lower end of the gullet, usually due to a problem in the liver causing a back pressure of blood. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1786 |
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