Esophageal cancer describes the disease where cells that line the esophagus change or mutate and become malignant. These cells grow out of control and form a mass or tumor. There are two main types of esophageal cancer:
Trajectory. A trajectory is the path that a moving object follows through space as a function of time. The object might be a projectile or a satellite, for example. It thus includes the meaning of orbitâthe path of a planet, an asteroid or a comet as it travels around a central mass.
A trajectory is the path of an object through space, or the path of life that a person chooses. The prefix tra- is short for trans-, which means across (think transport and transit) and the ject comes from jacere, which means throw and is also the root of the word jet. If you wanted to describe the path of a jet through the sky, you could refer to the jet's trajectory.