oesophageal
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- preoesophageal adjective
- suboesophageal adjective
Example Sentences
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Holder, 79, was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in 2018 and was initially given six months to live but he recovered following care at The Christie hospital in Manchester.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2025
The six deadliest cancers are lung, liver, brain, oesophageal, pancreatic and stomach.
From BBC • Jan. 11, 2024
The frontman contracted oesophageal cancer in 2018 and given six months to live - but new chemotherapy treatments helped him fight back.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2023
This latest study focuses on five cancers - breast, lung, melanoma, colorectal and oesophageal.
From BBC • Oct. 26, 2023
On account of the shortness of the visceral loop and the proximity of the right visceral ganglion to the oesophageal nerve-ring, the nerve to the osphradium and olfactory ganglion is very long.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
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