See Also: adenocarcinoma in Barrett's oesophagus(medicine)
Barrett oesophagus(medicine)
barrett's oesophagus(medicine)
Barrett(medicine)
Barrett's epithelium(medicine)
Barrett's syndrome(medicine)
Barrett's esophagus(health)
Barrett (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett(encyclopedia)
Reston, James (Barrett)(encyclopedia)

midden (iou) and adenocarcinoma in Barrett's oesophagus (medicine)


midden (iou)



midden noun. ME.

A dunghill, a manure-heap; a refuse-heap. ME.
fig.: Expression! My own enthusiasm for the arts, then, grew up in the fertilising midden of unselfconsciousness.
Archaeology. A prehistoric refuse-heap of shells and bones and often also discarded artefacts; spec. = KITCHEN midden. M19.
A receptacle for refuse, a dustbin; the place where dustbins are kept. Scot. colloq. L19.
Comb.: midden cock = DUNGHILL cock; midden fowl = DUNGHILL fowl; middenstead arch. & dial. the place where a midden or dunghill is formed.

adenocarcinoma in Barrett's oesophagus (medicine)


adenocarcinoma in Barrett's oesophagus


An adenocarcinoma arising in the lower third of the oesophagus that has become columnar cell lined (Barrett's mucosa) due to gastroesophageal reflux.