gastroesophageal

1. 1.

   of or relating to or involving the stomach and esophagus

Questions about gastroesophageal

What does gastroesophageal mean?

gastroesophageal means "of or relating to or involving the stomach and esophagus".

How many syllables are in gastroesophageal?

gastroesophageal has 7 syllables and divides as ga-stro-e-so-pha-ge-al under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is gastroesophageal a common word?

gastroesophageal 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.