Assertion: esophagus | /r/HasProperty | adherent
Facets:
value: tightly
type: DEGREE
value: into the thoracic cavity
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to the esophagus in its extension
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: New to our discussion concerns the buccopharyngeal fascia that covers the posterior surface of the pharynx and more caudad the esophagus and merges into the pretracheal or visceral fascia that is tightly adherent to the esophagus in its extension inferiorly into the thoracic cavity where it separates the esophagus from the prevertebral fascia .