gullet

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Barrett's oesophagus (Barrett's) is an abnormal lining of the oesophagus (otherwise known as the gullet), which occurs in patients with a long history of heartburn and reflux (acid and bile moving into the gullet).

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  1. noun The esophagus.
  2. noun The throat.
  3. noun Zoology An invagination into the cytoplasm of certain ciliates, used for food intake.

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  • But in the last instant before vanishing down gravity's gullet, the heated mass radiates back out to us high energy jets of virulent light. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 04-05 - October-November 2002
  • Within seconds the arm had been sucked back down Kenyon's gullet, and the tongue emerging in its place immediately licked clean all remaining trace of my daughter. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#3
  • These are the teeth on the pterygoid bones, which are located on either side of the roof of the mouth, near the gullet, and are provided with twelve teeth, more or less. —  AMBL
  • Barrett's oesophagus (Barrett's) is an abnormal lining of the oesophagus (otherwise known as the gullet), which occurs in patients with a long history of heartburn and reflux (acid and bile moving into the gullet). —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • But it is too big for his gullet, and he drops it in the very act and article of happy deglutition. —  Days Off And Other Digressions
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  1. Middle English golet, from Old French goulet, from goule, throat, from Latin gula.

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  1. Early modern English also gollet; from Middle English golet, the throat, also the neck of a garment, from Old French goulet, the throat, modern a narrow entrance (cf. French goulette, goulotte, a water-channel, in architecture), diminutive of gole, goule, the throat, modern F. gueule, the mouth, the jaws: see gole, gule. Cf. gully.
  2. from gullet, n.
 

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