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hiatus
(redirected from hiatal)

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hiatus Anatomy
1. a natural opening or aperture; foramen
2. a less common word for vulva

hiatus [hī′ād·əs]
(anatomy)
A space or a passage through an organ.
(geology)
A gap in a rock sequence due to a lack of deposition of a bed or to erosion of beds.


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Anatomical abnormalities such as a hiatal hernia may also contribute to GERD.
In some cases, GERD symptoms are caused by hiatal hernia (protrusion of part of the stomach up through the diaphragm).
He proposes that at a pre-stage of Proto-Balto-Slavic where the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals had disappeared, words originally accented on a final short or hiatal structure became unaccented.
 
 
 
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