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That part of the alimentary canal between the pharynx and the stomach; the gullet. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive. [Written also .]

Same as Esophagus, Esophageal, etc.

eathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus.

raodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish.

The anterior or cardiac orifice of the stomach, where the esophagus enters it.

Surrounding the esophagus; -- in Zool. said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks.

A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with esophagus.

Pertaining to the esophagus. [Written also .]

The operation of making an incision into the esophagus, for the purpose of removing any foreign substance that obstructs the passage. [Written also oesophagotomy.]

ed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium.

The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus.

of the pleura, called the mediastinal space, contains the heart and gives passage to the esophagus and great blood vessels.

The part of the alimentary canal between the cavity of the mouth and the esophagus. It has one or two external openings through the nose in the higher vertebrates, and lateral branchial openings in fishes and some amphibias.

ve (Anat.), one of the tenth pair of cranial nerves which are distributed to the pharynx, esophagus, larynx, lungs, heart, stomach, liver, and spleen, and, in fishes and many amphibia, to the branchial apparatus and also to the sides of the body.

uated in front of the bronchus; -- applied especially to an air sac on either side of the esophagus of birds.

lastic rod, as of whalebone, with a sponge on the end, for removing obstructions from the esophagus, etc.

own or poured back; to rush or surge back. The food may regurgitatem the stomach into the esophagus and mouth. Quain.

öl.), the ring ousel. -- Ring canal (Zoöl.), the circular water tube which surrounds the esophagus of echinoderms. -- Ring dotterel, or Ringed dotterel. (Zoöl.) See Dotterel, and Illust. of Pressiroster. -- Ring dropper, a sharper who pretends to have found a ring (dropped by himself), and tries to induce another to…

A tubular organ connected both with the esophagus and the intestine of certain sea urchins and annelids.

The primitive mouth and esophagus of the embryo of annelids and arthropods.