cardia

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek καρδία (kardía, “heart”). Doublet of heart.

noun

  1. (anatomy) The area of the stomach which directly receives contents from the esophagus.
    In some insects different cell types can be identified microscopically within the cardia. 2004, William H. Marquardt, Biology of Disease Vectors, page 300
    The first one is stripping from up to down for tumours in the cardias, the other one is stripping from down to up for cervical esophageal cancer. 2012, Kin-ichi Nabeya, editor, Recent Advances in Diseases of the Esophagus
    After several rinses in fresh culture medium the cardiae were transferred to sterilized vessels with culture medium which had been sterilized by filtration. 2012, Werner Peters, Peritrophic Membranes

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