œsophageal, cesophagean

[Eng. esophagus ); eal, on. Of or pertaining to the glands, and nerves, and an œsophageal plexus. œ-soph-a-gism, s. [Latin œsophag(us); Eng. suff. -ism; Fr. œsophagisme.] Pathol.: The erroneous feeling that one has swallowed a pin or a fish-bone. It is a nervous affection, and has sometimes been cured by a dose of opium at bedtime. [Gr. oisophagos =the œ-soph-a-got-o-mỹ, s . esophagus, and tome a cutting; temno =to cut.] Surg.: An operation recommended by Lisfranc for opening the esophagus for the removal of for eign bodies too large to be otherwise extracted. œ-soph-a-gus, 8. [Gr. oisophagos , from oisō, fut. of phero to bear, and phage in =to eat.] Anatomy : A slightly flexed canal, between the pharynx and the stomach, inclining to the left in the neck, the right in the upper thorax, and the left again through the posterior mediastinum. It is narrow and flat in the neck, and rounded in the lower and longest part. It pa es through the diaphragm, and terminates nearly opposite the tenth dorsal vertebra in the cardiac orifice of the stomach. The pa age of the food is caused by muscular contraction through the action of the parvagum nerve. [GULLET.]