Note 112 — THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM (continued 3)
Reading edition
It is usually stated that the cardiac end is funnel-shaped, but it is not so in formalin-hardened cadavers nor in frozen sections. The hiatus œsophagus is a long slit in the right crus of the diaphragm, and the terminal part of the œsophagus, which lies in it, is flattened transversely.