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Definition of Cardiac sphincter
1. Noun. The valve between the distal end of the esophagus and the stomach; the physiological sphincter at the esophagogastric junction.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cardiac Sphincter
Literary usage of Cardiac sphincter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pathological physiology of internal diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"increases the tone of the cardiac sphincter. Even powerful peristaltic waves in
the lower esophagus may fail to force food into the stomach, and there may ..."
2. Physiology and Biochemistry in Modern Medicine by John James Rickard Macleod (1922)
"... to the arrival here of the peristaltic wave with the accompanying opening of
the cardiac sphincter and the escape of the fluid and air into the stomach. ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"increases the tone of the cardiac sphincter. Even powerful peristaltic waves in
the lower esophagus may fail to force food into the stomach, and there may ..."
4. American Medicine (1913)
"Regurgitation leans expulsion of food from the stomach ast an open cardiac sphincter.
Vomit- ng is always preceded by nausea. Regurgitation is not. ..."
5. The Mechanical Factors of Digestion by Walter Bradford Cannon (1911)
"... with the stomach—the cardiac sphincter, or cardia—has the function of preventing
the passage of material from the stomach back into the oesophagus. ..."
6. An Index of differential diagnosis of main symptoms by Herbert French (1918)
"At the same time the cardiac sphincter is relaxed, and the gastric contents are
expelled, chiefly as the result of the pressure thus exerted on the stomach ..."
7. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1874)
"not contract, and they will exert themselves in vain if the cardiac sphincter
remains contracted. This ia seen in retching, which sometimes occurs without ..."
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