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The diaphragm is a thin sheet of muscle, dividing your chest and abdomen. There’s normally a small space where the oesophagus (the tube connecting the mouth and stomach) goes down but if this enlarges it allows the stomach to be pushed up – this is a hiatus hernia.
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