cardiac sphincter

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   the valve between the distal end of the esophagus and the stomach; the physiological sphincter at the esophagogastric junction

   Broaderphysiological sphincter

   Part ofesophagus

Questions about cardiac sphincter

What does cardiac sphincter mean?

cardiac sphincter means "the valve between the distal end of the esophagus and the stomach; the physiological sphincter at the esophagogastric junction".

Is cardiac sphincter a common word?

cardiac sphincter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.