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What is a gullet?

What is a gullet? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The throat or esophagus.
  2. (cytology) The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.
  3. The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
  4. A channel for water.
  5. A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
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The barium solution shows up the stomach and gullet more clearly, and the process of digestion can be seen.
Instead, the acid irritates the lining of the gullet, causing the burning pain.
The corrosive chemicals are irritating to the delicate lining of the gullet.
The tam is thought to have evolved to survive passage through the gullet of the island's biggest, flightless bird, the dodo.
Contact may be with your skin, or with the lining of your lungs, mouth, gullet, stomach or intestine.
When you swallow, it can feel as though food is stuck in your gullet, as the muscles of the oesophagus try to push it past the tumour.

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