dysphagia
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Noun
dysphagia (countable and uncountable, plural dysphagias)
- (pathology) Difficulty in swallowing.
- 1910, Alfred Bruck, F. W. Forbes Ross, The Diseases of the Nose, Mouth, Pharynx and Larynx, page 305:
- If the sensory branches of the laryngeal nerve (superior laryngeal nerve) are paralysed, the danger is great, for the patients, owing to the abolished reflex action, are prone to misswallow (dysphagia) , and become subject to "foreign body pneumonia."
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difficulty in swallowing
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