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circumesophageal

circumesophageal adjective: surrounding the esophagus.

Adjective

circumesophageal (not comparable)

  1. Surrounding the esophagus.
    • circumesophageal connective
    • circumesophageal interneurons

Examples of circumesophageal in a sentence

  • circumesophageal ganglia
  • the circumesophageal nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks

Origin of circumesophageal

From circum- + esophageal.

Questions about circumesophageal

What does circumesophageal mean?
Circumesophageal means surrounding the esophagus.
How do you use circumesophageal in a sentence?
circumesophageal ganglia
What part of speech is circumesophageal?
Circumesophageal is an adjective.

Words near circumesophageal in the dictionary

  1. circumellipses
  2. circumenteric
  3. circumequatorial
  4. circumequatorially
  5. circumerosion
  6. circumesophageal
  7. circumeter
  8. circumeters
  9. circumfer
  10. circumfered
  11. circumference

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