{"id":1655,"date":"2017-06-09T16:18:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T23:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2017-06-09T16:18:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T23:18:20","slug":"esophageal-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/2017\/06\/09\/esophageal-hiatus\/","title":{"rendered":"Esophageal Hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>esophageal hiatus<\/strong> is the opening in the <strong>diaphragm<\/strong> through which the esophagus passes and then enters the stomach. \u00a0It can be viewed by pushing aside the lungs and heart within the thoracic cavity and tracing the esophagus to the diaphragm. \u00a0 \u00a0The inferior vena cava also can be found in this region, often running parallel to the esophagus and pierces the diaphragm at the caval opening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/esophagus-vena-cava-labeld.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1657\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/esophagus-vena-cava-labeld.jpg\" alt=\"esophagus and vena cava\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/esophagus-vena-cava-labeld.jpg 900w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/esophagus-vena-cava-labeld-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/esophagus-vena-cava-labeld-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/esophagus-vena-cava-labeld-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The esophageal hiatus is the opening in the diaphragm through which the esophagus passes and then enters the stomach. \u00a0It can be viewed by pushing aside the lungs and heart within the thoracic cavity and tracing the esophagus to the diaphragm. \u00a0 \u00a0The inferior vena cava also can be found in this region, often running parallel to the esophagus and pierces the diaphragm at the caval opening. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19,262,40,72,173,18],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anatomical","tag-cava","tag-diaphragm","tag-esophagus","tag-hiatus","tag-thoracic","tag-vena","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}