Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See subesophageal.
  • Situated below or beneath the esophagus or gullet; in Arthropoda, specifying certain nervous ganglia which lie underneath (ventrad of) the esophagus. Also infra-esophageal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Situated beneath the esophagus.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) a large special ganglion situated beneath the esophagus of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective anatomy Situated beneath the esophagus.

Etymologies

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sub- +‎ esophageal

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