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stricted lumen. In most mammals and in man such mechanism is 

 functionally superfluous, and consequently absent except in slight and 

 variable degree. As such it may persist or become accentuated, and 

 produce congenital atresia or stenosis of the esophagus. The relatively 

 frequent embryonic and congenital occlusions of the duodenum just cau- 

 dal to the pancreatic anlages may perhaps likewise find their explana- 

 tion in terms of a phylogenetic protective device against yolk invasion . 



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