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LES

American  

abbreviation

  1. lower esophageal sphincter.


Example Sentences

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Neither Potter nor Nothnagel are racking up LES bills with their personal collections.

From Washington Times • Mar. 18, 2017

LES CAYES, Haiti — A hospital now a shambles, its floors swamped with garbage and water, absent electricity.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2016

The Orion spacecraft, NASA’s next generation of manned craft in development, also features an LES mounted on top of the craft, called a Launch Abort System.

From Time • Nov. 18, 2014

Most other proposed transactions in the global exchanges industry, including bids by the LES, Singapore Exchange Ltd and Nasdaq OMX Group, have since failed.

From Reuters • Jan. 11, 2012

LES MISERABLES.—The best edition, two elegant 8vo. vols., beautifully bound in cloth, $5.50; half calf, $10.00 LES MISERABLES.—The popular edition, one large octavo volume, paper covers, $2.00; cloth bound, $2.50 JARGAL.—A very remarkable novel.

From The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages by Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor)