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oesophageal trauma (medicine)


oesophageal trauma
<radiology> Emetic trauma: mucosal: Mallory-Weiss syndrome, intramural: intramural dissection, transmural: Boerhaave syndrome, non-emetic trauma: instrumentation, blunt trauma to chest, penetrating trauma, taco tear


skate(1) (iou)



skate noun1. ME.
[Old Norse skata.]
Any of various rays of the family Rajidae, with a roughly diamond-shaped body and a long thin tail; spec. (a) the large Raja batis, which is common in the NE Atlantic and much used as Food; (b) colloq. = THORNBACK 1. Also, the flesh of any of these fishes as Food. Cf. THORNBACK 1, 1b.
little skate, thornback skate, etc.
Comb.: skate-barrow the egg-case of a skate; skate-leech, skate-sucker a large leech, Pontobdella muricata, which infests skates and rays.