esophageal

[ih-sof-uh-jee-uhl, ee-suh-faj-ee-uhl]

adjective

1. pertaining to the esophagus.

Other Word Forms

• postesophageal adjective
• preesophageal adjective
• subesophageal adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of esophageal¹

1800–10; esophag(us) + -eal, variant of -ial

Example Sentences

The veteran lawmaker, who served as the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, was diagnosed last year with esophageal cancer.

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In a note shared to social media, Connolly, 74, cited his ongoing battle with esophageal cancer as the reason for his retirement.

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“Although I’m famous as a pessimist, I really haven’t been pessimistic,” Davis told me in 2022, the last time we saw each other, months before he died of esophageal cancer at 76.

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Journalist Tony Ortega, who has long covered Scientology, announced in a June 2023 post on his Underground Bunker blog that Rinder had advanced esophageal cancer.

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Connolly was diagnosed with esophageal cancer last month and is seeking chemotherapy treatment, a development that one House Democrat told Axios would work against him.

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