esophageal
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of esophageal
1800–10; esophag(us) + -eal, variant of -ial
Example Sentences
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A large review published in Frontiers in Nutrition examined the available evidence and found that people who consumed the most chili peppers were more likely to develop certain gastrointestinal cancers, especially esophageal cancer.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
The “Titanic” and “Avatar” producer died last year of esophageal cancer at the age of 63.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
The morning before the House voted on the OBBBA, Virginia Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly died from esophageal cancer.
From Slate ● May 24, 2025
“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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2025
Dysphagia is the medical term for not being able to swallow, and I know that there are two kinds of dysphagia: oropharyngeal and esophageal.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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