{"id":880,"date":"2015-05-31T10:19:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T17:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/?p=880"},"modified":"2015-06-01T16:39:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T23:39:45","slug":"esophagus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/2015\/05\/31\/esophagus\/","title":{"rendered":"Esophagus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The esophagus is simple to find on diagrams, usually shown as a long tube leading from the mouth to the stomach. \u00a0 On preserved specimens the esophagus can be challenging to locate. \u00a0 It is soft tissue that lies next to the trachea (identifiable by the cartilage rings) and can be mistaken for muscle or connective tissue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/esophagus-900px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-881\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/esophagus-900px.jpg\" alt=\"esophagus\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/esophagus-900px.jpg 900w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/esophagus-900px-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/esophagus-900px-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/esophagus-900px-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you locate the esophagus, try making a small opening in it and inserting a blunt probe. \u00a0The blunt probe can be pushed all the way into the stomach and reveal the location of the esophageal hiatus (the opening in the diaphragm where the esophagus passes through.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/esophagus-with-probe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-882\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/esophagus-with-probe.jpg\" alt=\"esophagus-with-probe\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/esophagus-with-probe.jpg 900w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/esophagus-with-probe-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/esophagus-with-probe-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/esophagus-with-probe-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The esophagus is simple to find on diagrams, usually shown as a long tube leading from the mouth to the stomach. \u00a0 On preserved specimens the esophagus can be challenging to locate. \u00a0 It is soft tissue that lies next to the trachea (identifiable by the cartilage rings) and can be mistaken for muscle or connective tissue. If you locate the esophagus, try making a small opening in it and inserting a blunt probe. \u00a0The blunt probe can be pushed all the way into the stomach and reveal the location of the esophageal hiatus (the opening in the diaphragm where <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,60,61,73,40,72,70,71],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anatomical","tag-anatomy","tag-cat","tag-dissection","tag-esophageal","tag-esophagus","tag-hiatus","tag-location","tag-trachea","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","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=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}