achalasia

Summary
Synonym
  • Lack of reflex relaxation of lower oesophageal sphincter
  • achalasia of cardia
  • achalasia of esophagus
  • cardiospasm
  • esophageal achalasia
  • hypertensive lower esophageal sphincter
Definition
An esophageal disease that is characterized by an inability of the esophagus to move food toward the stomach resulting from the lower esophogeal sphincter not fully relaxing during swallowing.
Super Class
esophageal disease
External Links
Disease Ontology
DOID:9164
Mondo Disease Ontology
MeSH
UMLS
NCI Thesaurus
OMIM
MGI genotype (from TogoID)
Related Genes
Displaying all 5 entries
Gene ID Gene Symbol Description Source
175 AGA aspartylglucosaminidase
811 CALR calreticulin
1632 ECI1 enoyl-CoA delta isomerase 1
2525 FUT3 fucosyltransferase 3 (Lewis blood group)
29926 GMPPA GDP-mannose pyrophosphorylase A

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