Usually means: Tube connecting throat to stomach.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. esophagus: Merriam-Webster
  2. esophagus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. esophagus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. esophagus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. esophagus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Esophagus, esophagus: Wordnik
  7. esophagus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Esophagus, Esophagus, Esophagus, Esophagus, Esophagus, Esophagus, Esophagus, Esophagus, Esophagus, Esophagus, Esophagus, Esophagus, Esophagus, Esophagus: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. esophagus: Wiktionary
  10. esophagus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. esophagus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. esophagus: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. esophagus: Dictionary.com
  14. esophagus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. esophagus: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Esophagus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Esophagus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. esophagus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. esophagus: Rhymezone
  20. Esophagus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. esophagus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. esophagus: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. esophagus: FreeDictionary.org
  24. esophagus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. esophagus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. esophagus: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. esophagus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. esophagus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Esophagus: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Esophagus: Merck Manuals
  7. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Esophagus: Anatomy of the Human Body
  9. Esophagus: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  10. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  11. GI Disorders (No longer online)
  12. (O)esophagus: Scleroderma
  13. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  14. esophagus: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  15. Esophagus: The Atlas of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
  16. esophagus: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  17. esophagus: Medical dictionary
  18. Inflammatory Bowel Disease Glossary (No longer online)
  19. Esophagus: Drug Medical Dictionary
  20. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. esophagus: Natural History Terms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See esophageal as well.)

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noun:  (American spelling) Alternative spelling of oesophagus [(anatomy) The tube that carries food from the pharynx to the stomach.]

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