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LES
(redirected from lower esophageal sphincter)

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LESLaboratorio de Energie Solar
LESLake Effect Snow
LESLambert-Eaton Syndrome
LESLAN Emulation Server (ATMF)
LESLAN Extension Service
LESLand Earth Station (INMARSAT)
LESLarge Eddy Simulation
LESLarge Extension Switch
LESLaser Evaluator System
LESLaser Eye Surgery
LESLaunch Effort Simulator
LESLaunch Enable Switch (US Navy)
LESLaunch Enable System (Titan II)
LESLaunch Environment Simulator
LESLaunch Escape System
LESLaw Enforcement Sensitive (security classification)
LESLaw Enforcement Sources
LESLaw Enforcement Squadron
LESLawrence Experimental Station
LESLeading Edge Services
LESLeave and Earnings Statement
LESLesbian
LESLicensing Executives Society (USA & Canada)
LESLife Enhancement Skills (UK FE students)
LESLincoln Experimental Satellite
LESLine Errored Seconds
LESLinear Expenditure System
LESLoaded Equipment Section
LESLocal Education Service
LESLocal Engineering Specification
LESLocal Excitatory State
LESLocal Exported Schema
LESLocally Employed Staff
LESLocally Engaged Staff
LESLocally-Enhanced Sampling
LESLogistics Execution System
LESLoop Emulation Service
LESLoop Expert Systems (Loop Expert Technologies)
LESLoral Electronics Systems
LESLow Energy System
LESLower East Side (Manhattan)
LESLower Esophageal Sphincter
LESLupus Eritematoso Sistemico (Italian)
LESLuxembourg Employment Study
LESWaste Management Laboratory
LESLinux Enterprise Server
LESLoad Es Segment
LESLogitech Entertainment System
LESLow End System
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2) Factors predisposing to stricture formation are not well understood, but studies demonstrate that patients with peptic stricture are older, have reflux symptoms of longer duration, have an associated esophageal motility disorder, and have significantly reduced lower esophageal sphincter pressures.
Complete esophageal stenosis secondary to peptic stricture in the ... by Raynor, Tiffany / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
One reason gastric reflux occurs in runners is the transient relaxation of the lower esophageal sphincter secondary to the swallowing of air.
Track-induced nausea by Running & FitNews
Potential Etiologies for Running-Related Gastroesophageal Reflux Lower Esophageal Sphincter Relaxation
Gastroesophageal reflux disease in runners by Levey, John / AMAA Journal
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