oesophagus

«oesophagus» in Mova's school dictionary: the muscular tube that carries food and drink from your… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (the oesophagus, oesophaguses or oesophagi)

meaning for a pupil

The oesophagus is the muscular tube that carries food and drink from your mouth and throat down to your stomach. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in science lessons about the digestive system: mouth, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine. Its muscles squeeze food down in waves, so you can swallow even upside down. In everyday life people say "food pipe" or "gullet" for it.

examples

• The oesophagus carries food to the stomach. tree →
• When you swallow, the oesophagus squeezes the food down. tree →
• Label the oesophagus on the diagram of the digestive system. tree →
• The oesophagus is behind the windpipe. tree →
• Hot drinks can hurt your oesophagus, so sip them slowly. tree →
• Astronauts can swallow in space because the oesophagus pushes the food along. tree →
• The doctor said the fish bone was stuck in his oesophagus. tree →

note

British spelling; American spelling is "esophagus". Do not confuse it with the trachea (windpipe), which carries air to the lungs. Usually used with "the": "the oesophagus". Plural is rare.

In the corpora

• The oesophagus (food pipe) carries food from the mouth to the stomach.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «oesophagus» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.