Medical lingo?
Answer:
As you may have realize from the previous answers, gastro = stomach and esophago = esophagus. When doctors perform EGD, esophagogastroduodenoscopy, it pertains to the direction of the compass coming from the esophageal area to the duodenum. Compared to GERD, gastro-esophageal reflux disease, which describes the direction of the reflux. From this you can infer that it indicates the direction an intention or a substance is coming from or going to. I hope this helps.
gastroesophageal and esophagogastric are basicly like. gastroesophageal is more serious though. hope i helped.
Remember that "gastr" other pertains to the stomach.
Gastroesophageal pertains to the esophagus connecting to your stomach.
The suffixes -ic or -al usually means "pertaining to".
If they right to be heard "esaphagogastric". It's just another fancy course of saying: Pertains to the stomach and esophagus, (and the language is usually interpreted backwards).
Never heard "esophagogastric" used, but will theorize this:
If something is moving down (esophagus - stomach), I guess you could enunciate esophagogastric. If it's moving the other way (like reflux), it would be gastroesophageal.
That doesn't explain why we call upon it the "GE junction" though. Maybe it's just easier to speak.
Good question.
Basically none at adjectives.GASTRO refers to gastric that is stomach
ESOPHAGEAL refers to oesophagus the swallowing tube between your throat and stomach. They are associated together.
The term gastroesophageal is usually used but both are valid