gullet
guh luht
- n the passage between the pharynx and the stomach
- Sometimes there is a short, dead-end stretch of gullet at both top and bottom, but the middle section is missing.
- Waiting in Philadelphia last week for famed Bronchoscopist Chevalier Jackson to haul a hooked dental bridge out of his gullet was a Detroit medical student.
- This permits part of the stomach to poke upward into the chest cavity and spill digestive juices into the gullet.