Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cardiac_sphincter

1 sense of cardiac sphincter

Sense 1
cardiac sphincter -- (the valve between the distal end of the esophagus and the stomach; the physiological sphincter at the esophagogastric junction)
       => physiological sphincter -- (a sphincter that is not recognizable at autopsy because its resting arrangement cannot be distinguished from adjacent tissue)