esophagogastric junction

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   the junction between the esophagus and the stomach epithelium

   Synonymsoesophagogastric junction

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Questions about esophagogastric junction

What does esophagogastric junction mean?

esophagogastric junction means "the junction between the esophagus and the stomach epithelium".

What is another word for esophagogastric junction?

Close synonyms include oesophagogastric junction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is esophagogastric junction a common word?

esophagogastric junction 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.