Word: cardiospasm
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...Cardiospasm. People who have abnormal difficulty in swallowing (because of a spasm of the esophagus) are about like those who become hyperthyroid, but a little less...
...coldly comforting thought: Drs. Moschowitz and Roudin found only two cases of the same person with both hyperthyroidism and cardiospasm, only one with both high blood pressure and cardiospasm, none of cardiospasm plus colonic disorders, none of stomach ulcer plus nonspecific ulcerative colitis...
...Atlantic City, last week, it will not harm him. But if it is his food, he may get cancer. Said Dr. Osmond: "Prolonged nervous strain and gulping of food, such as many American business men experience today, is highly dangerous. It is apt to produce what is known as cardiospasm, when the nerves do not coordinate, and when food which is swallowed does not get into the stomach, but is retained in the gullet,* which expands until sometimes as much as a quart of food is held by it. "The victim experiences great discomfort which is often erroneously attributed...
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