Sentences with phrase «from oesophagus»

It comprises an estimated 500 million neurons — about five times as many as in the brain of a rat — and is around 9 metres long, stretching from your oesophagus to your anus.

My host tending to her dying father (suffering from oesophagus cancer) as he spat blood into newspaper scraps.

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My brother died of oesophagus cancer at 38 years old, and recently my grandmother passed away from complications of breast cancer.

To help them communicate they are often fitted with a valve in their throat to divert air from the lungs to the oesophagus when they exhale, generating a form of speech.

These were secondary tumours from 71 people with cancers that had spread from the bowel, oesophagus or bile duct.

Swallowed by patients, the gelatin capsule dissolves and the sponge expands, such that when it's pulled back out, it comprehensively samples cells from the whole oesophagus, entirely removing the risk of sampling bias.

But in the course of his work, detailed phenotypic characterisation of biopsy samples led him to an unexpected conclusion: «The traditional view is that Barrett's glands develop from the normal lining of the oesophagus, but actually, they look really similar to pre-cancerous changes seen in the stomach lining,» Stuart says.

Nature Communications is publishing an editorial expression of concern on the manuscript «Experimental orthotopic transplantation of a tissue - engineered oesophagus in rats» from Sjoqvist et al. to alert our readership to concerns regarding the integrity of the study.

The pressure from this gas can also cause the sphincter at the top of our stomach to be pushed open, releasing gas designed for the stomach, up into our oesophagus.

It is also possible that acid reflux from the stomach could damage the oesophagus (gullet or foodpipe).

The Nova Scotia SPCA opposes the use of pinch, pronged or choking collars due to the physical damage that can occur to the trachea, oesophagus, vertebrae and brain of the dog, in addition to the psychological damage from pain and stress associated with such devices.

Last week I spent three and a half hours removing a hair ball mass from a cats oesophagus who will probably have difficulties the rest of her life from this and several times a year, I need to surgically remove hair ball masses from intestines due to obstructions.

The digestive tract is similar to that of free - living nematodes only in the young larvae prior to their parasitic life; in the parasitic stages the oesophagus is disconnected from the mid-intestine, and females lack an anus.