oesophagus

See also: opsophagos and œsophagus

English

The (o)esophagus is at the bottom right

Alternative forms

• esophagus (US spelling)
• œsophagus (older UK spelling)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek οἰσοφάγος (oisophágos), from οἴσομεν (oísomen), future form of φέρω (phérō, “I carry”) + ἔφαγον (éphagon, “I ate”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /iːˈsɒfəɡəs/, /ɪˈsɒfəɡəs/
• (US) enPR: ĭ-säfʹə-gəs, IPA^(key): /ɪˈsɑfəɡəs/

Noun

oesophagus (plural oesophagi or oesophaguses)

1. (anatomy) The tube that carries food from the pharynx to the stomach.

Synonyms

• gullet
• weasand

Derived terms

• oesophageal
• oesophagectomy
• oesophagitis

Translations

the tube that carries food from the pharynx to the stomach

• Afrikaans: slukderm (af)
• Arabic: مَرِيء‎ m (marīʾ)
• Armenian: կերակրափող (hy) (kerakrapʿoł)
• Asturian: esófagu (ast) m
• Bengali: অন্ননালী (bn) (ônnnalī)
• Breton: treizher f
• Bulgarian: хранопровод (bg) m (hranoprovod)
• Catalan: esòfag (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 食道 (zh) (shídào), 食管 (zh) (shíguǎn)

• Czech: jícen (cs) m
• Danish: spiserør (da)
• Dutch: slokdarm (nl) m
• Esperanto: ezofago
• Finnish: ruokatorvi (fi)
• French: œsophage (fr) m
• Galician: esófago (gl) m
• German: Ösophagus (de) m, Speiseröhre (de) f
• Greek: οισοφάγος (el) m (oisofágos)

  Ancient Greek: οἰσοφάγος m (oisophágos)

• Hebrew: ושט‎ (he) m
• Hungarian: nyelőcső (hu)
• Icelandic: vélinda (is) n
• Ido: ezofago (io)
• Irish: éasafagas m
• Italian: esofago (it) m
• Japanese: 食道 (ja) (しょくどう, shokudō)
• Korean:

  North Korean: 밥길 (ko) (babgil)

  South Korean: 식도 (ko) (食道, shikdo)

• Latin: fistula cibālis f
• Latvian: barības vads m
• Maori: pūkai
• Navajo: azágí
• Norwegian: øsofag m

  Bokmål: spiserør

  Nynorsk: matrøyr n

• Polish: przełyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: esófago (pt) m (Portugal), esôfago (pt) m (Brazil)
• Russian: пищево́д (ru) m (piščevód)
• Scottish Gaelic: slugan m, sgòrnan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гркљан m

  Roman: grkljan (sh) m

• Slovak: pažerák (sk) m
• Slovene: požiralnik (sl) m
• Spanish: esófago (es) m
• Swedish: matstrupe (sv)
• Tagalog: lalaugan
• Thai: หลอดอาหาร (lɔ̀ɔt-aa-hǎan)
• Tok Pisin: mambu bilong nek
• Turkish: yemek borusu (tr), yemak
• Vietnamese: thực quản (vi)
• Volapük: söof
• Welsh: oesoffagws m

See also

• oesophagus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia