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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
achalasia /ˌakəˈleɪzɪə/

▶noun Medicine a condition in which the muscles of the lower part of the oesophagus fail to relax, preventing food from passing into the stomach.

– origin early 20th cent.: from a-1 + Gk khalasis ‘loosening’ + -ia1.

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