Assertion: esophagus | /r/CapableOf | run down the chest
Facets:
value: in front of the spine
type: LOCATION
value: from the neck
type: OTHER
value: in the mediastinum
type: LOCATION
value: throught the diaphragm
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: It connects the throat to the stomach – starting from the lower parts of the neck and running down the chest (thoracic) cavity throught the diaphragm and continues into the stomach immediately after entering the abdominal cavity.
text: The esophagus is a muscular tube that starts at the inferior border of the cricoid cartilage in the neck and traverses the chest, ending as it enters the stomach in the upper abdomen.
text: As the esophagus travels from the neck through chest to diaphragm, additional cervical fascia planes become relevant and some merge.
text: The esophagus generally starts around the level of the sixth cervical vertebra (C6) and travels behind the trachea and the heart, passes through the diaphragm and enters in the cardia of the stomach at the level of the eleventh thoracic vertebra (T11).
text: 13 41 13 52 53 13 1 2.9 54 55 Open image in new window As the esophagus travels through the chest in the mediastinum contained in a bed of loose areolar connective tissue, tiny fibroelastic membranes of elastic or collagen fibers sometimes mixed with skeletal or smooth muscle fibers known as bronchoesophageal , or pleuroesophageal membranes connect the proximal esophagus to the membranous posterior surface of the trachea, as well as pleura, and retroperitoneum [].
text: From here the esophagus travels down behind the heart and in front of the spine and eventually passes through the diaphragm to finally end at the stomach.