circumesophageal
English
Etymology
circum- + esophageal
Adjective
circumesophageal (not comparable)
- (anatomy) Surrounding the esophagus.
- the circumesophageal nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for circumesophageal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)