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achalasia (DOID:9164)
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Synonyms: achalasia of cardia; achalasia of esophagus; cardiospasm; esophageal achalasia; hypertensive lower esophageal sphincter; Lack of reflex relaxation of lower oesophageal sphincter
Alt IDs: OMIM:200400, ICD10CM:K22.0, ICD9CM:530.0, MESH:D004931, NCI:C84699, UMLS_CUI:C0014848
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.

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Mouse Genome Database (MGD), Gene Expression Database (GXD), Mouse Models of Human Cancer database (MMHCdb) (formerly Mouse Tumor Biology (MTB)), Gene Ontology (GO)
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