oesophagus
The muscular tube carries swallowed food from the throat to the stomach, descending behind the trachea and through the diaphragm.
All languages
- English
- oesophagus
- Norwegian
- spiserør
- Japanese
- 食道 — しょくどう — shokudō
- Korean
- 식도 — sikdo
- Spanish
- esófago
- French
- œsophage
- German
- Speiseröhre
Illustrations are AI-generated and translations are undergoing language review.