Definition: 'Diffuse Esophageal Spasm'
diffuse esophageal spasm
Type: Term
Definitions:
1. abnormal contraction of the muscular wall of the esophagus causing pain and dysphagia, often in response to regurgitation of acid gastric contents.
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