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Definition: Oesophagus |
OesophagusNoun1. The passage between the pharynx and the stomach. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "oesophagus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | Part of the digestive tract. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: OesophagusSynonyms: esophagus (n), gorge (n), gullet (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Oesophagus |
| Specialty definitions using "oesophagus": esophageal varicose vein, esophageal varix ♦ gastrooesophageal ♦ oesophagalgia, oesophageal varix. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Oesophagus" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (Barrett's esophagus, esophagus, oesophagus). |
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| "Oesophagus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Oesophagus" is used about 482 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 482 | 12,355 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "oesophagus": mid-oesophagus, neo-oesophagus. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
oesophagus cancer | 10 |
oesophagus | 9 |
oesophagus quail | 4 |
barretts oesophagus | 3 |
melanosis oesophagus | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "oesophagus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gurmaz (esophagus, gullet, larynx, pharynx), ezofag (esophagus, oesophagitis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хранопровод (gullet, throttle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 食道 (Esophagus, gastrointestinal, gut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | jícen (esophagus, gullet, throat, vent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | spiseroer (esophagus), morløser (gullet, weasand, weasands). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | slokdarm (esophagus, throat), keeldarm (gullet, weasand, weasands). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kurkku (cucumber, throat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | oesophage des ruminants, oesophage, herbière. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | speiseröhre (esophagus, gullet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | με την εισπνοή τα σωματίδια της σκόνης μεταφέρονται από ελεύθερα μακροφάγα κύτταρα από τις κυψέλες στο βλεφαροειδές επιθήλιο και απομα-κρ (after inhalation the dust particles are carried by free macrophages from the alveoli to the ciliated epithelium and are eliminated or expectorated into the oesophagus via the upper air passages), τα σωματίδια που έχουν διάμετρο πάνω από 2μ,αποτίθενται πάνω στη βλεννώδη μεμβράνη και παρασύρονται από βλεννο-βλεφαροειδή ρεύ-ματα,έως το (particles which have more than 2 diameter are deposited on the mucous lining and are transported through the mucociliary flows to the oesophagus and swallowed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nyelőcső (esophagus, gullet, red lane, throttle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kerongkongan (gullet, throat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | esofago (esophagus, gullet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 식도 (Esophagus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oesophagusay oersted (oersted), esófago (esophagus). (various references) esofag (gullet). (various references) пищевод (esophagus, gullet). (various references) jednjak (esophagus, gullet). (various references) esófago (esophagus, gullet). (various references) matstrupe (esophagus, gullet, oesophagi). (various references) หลอดอาหาร (esophagus, gullet). (various references) yutak (pharynx, swallow), yemek borusu (esophagus). (various references) цdek (gullet). (various references) стравоход. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | oesophagus. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-o-o-p-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: esophagus. | |
-2 letters: gashouse. | |
-3 letters: gaseous. | |
-4 letters: gashes, gooses, gushes, houses, opuses, ouphes, paseos, pashes, pauses, phages, phases, pushes, saughs, shapes, soughs, spouse, upases, usages. | |
-5 letters: agues, apses, ashes, ephas, gapes, gases, gasps, gauss, gesso, goops, goose, guess, hasps, heaps, hoops, hopes, hoses, house, oases, opahs, ouphe, ouphs, pages, paseo, pases, passe, pause, peags, pesos, phage. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 65 73 6F 70 68 61 67 75 73 |
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