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ESOPHAGUS<br />

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• Weakened muscles - difficulty in swallowing food<br />

• Reflux- increased acid from stomach results in heartburn<br />

• Curling - food slow in reaching stomach - may lodge in<br />

esophagus and feel stuck or reverse movement into throat and<br />

be inhaled resulting in possible choking

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