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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oesophagus/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oesophagus/#x1)
- When you swallow, the oesophagus squeezes the food down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oesophagus/#x2)
- Label the oesophagus on the diagram of the digestive system. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oesophagus/#x3)
- The oesophagus is behind the windpipe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oesophagus/#x4)
- Hot drinks can hurt your oesophagus, so sip them slowly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oesophagus/#x5)
- Astronauts can swallow in space because the oesophagus pushes the food along. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oesophagus/#x6)
- The doctor said the fish bone was stuck in his oesophagus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oesophagus/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «oesophagus» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oesophagus/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.