Word: gullete
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...Ricard is the most insidiously sly drink that ever slipped down an unsuspecting gullet. Two Ricards should be the maximum; I once tried three and felt that I was the most fascinating type, physically and intellectually, in the sixth arrondissement. Such illusions are not good...
...conduct. Good members of M.R.A. do not smoke or drink, and even if married are urged to sexual restraint. Last week Peter Howard warned Britain's new Prime Minister Harold Wilson against "satirists and cynics" who "debase our ancient virtue and push pornography and godlessness down the national gullet." A current M.R.A. crusade in Holland features big newspaper ads, written by Howard, condemning the spread of homosexuality ("It can be cured...
Another serious condition that can be mistaken for simple heartburn is a hiatus hernia-a defect in the diaphragm where the gullet (esophagus) passes through, just above the stomach. This permits part of the stomach to poke upward into the chest cavity and spill digestive juices into the gullet. Pope Pius XII suffered from a hiatus hernia for a long time before it was correctly diagnosed and treated, and the condition is by no means rare...
When circulation through the liver is blocked by disease, the blood backs up into the veins lining the gullet (esophagus) and sometimes the stomach as well. The swollen, twisted veins are called varices. Their thin walls are prone to break and let blood ooze, or even gush, into the digestive tract. To squeeze the veins shut and thus stop the bleeding, two New York surgeons, Dr. Robert W. Sengstaken and Dr. Arthur H. Blakemore, devised a most ingenious triple tube...
...stomach so that any escaped blood can be suctioned off. The second, with a balloon on its end, goes just inside the stomach, where it is inflated to serve as an anchor. The third chamber is a sausage-shaped balloon nine inches long, which is inflated in the gullet. Its pressure against the varices stops the bleeding...