"valve" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Manometry also allows the doctor to examine the muscular valve connecting the esophagus with the stomach, called the lower esophageal sphincter, or LES.
- The sphincter of Oddi is a muscular valve that controls the opening of the ampulla.
- With gravity's help, a muscular valve called the lower esophageal sphincter, or LES, keeps stomach acid in the stomach.
- These external openings, which act as muscular valves in some insects, lead to the internal respiratory system, a densely networked array of tubes called tracheae.
- As food reaches the end of the esophagus, it enters the stomach through a muscular valve called the lower esophageal sphincter.
- The pyloric sphincter is a muscular valve that opens to allow food to pass from the stomach to the small intestine.
- The bladder sphincter is a muscular valve that lies at the bottom of the bladder.
- Normally, a muscular valve called the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) opens to allow food into the stomach (or to permit belching); then it closes again.
- The ears and nostrils of pygmy hippos have strong muscular valves to aid submerging underwater, and the skin physiology is dependent on the availability of water.
- A muscular valve regulates the process of opening and closing the entrance of the lung.
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