# achalasia

> esophageal disease characterized by an inability of the esophagus to move food toward the stomach resulting from the lower esophogeal sphincter not fully relaxing during swallowing

**Wikidata**: [Q661015](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q661015)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esophageal_achalasia)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/achalasia


## References

1. Disease Ontology
2. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
3. [Source](http://www.patient.co.uk/patientplus/a.htm)
4. BBC Things
5. [Identifiers.org](http://www.ebi.ac.uk/miriam/main/collections/MIR:00000233)
6. Quora
7. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)