esophageal smear

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   alimentary tract smear of material obtained from the esophagus

   Broaderalimentary tract smear

Questions about esophageal smear

What does esophageal smear mean?

esophageal smear means "alimentary tract smear of material obtained from the esophagus".

Is esophageal smear a common word?

esophageal smear 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.