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Dysphagia |
Difficulty swallowing; Difficulty Swallowing (Dysphagia); Swallowing / Dysphagia; Swallowing, Difficulty |
Dysphagia (/dɪsˈfe(ɪ)ʒjə/, not to be confused with dysphasia) is a medical term defined as "difficulty swallowing". It derives from the Greek root dys meaning difficulty or disordered, and phagia meaning "to eat". It is a sensation that suggests difficulty in the passage of solids or liquids from the mouth to the stomach [1]. Dysphagia is distinguised from similar symptoms including odynophagia, which is defined as painful swallowing, and globus, which is the sensation of a lump in the ...
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- American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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- Dysphagia (Medline Plus)
- Dysphagia (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- Dysphagia (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
- Dysphagia (National Institutes of Health)
- El aparato digestivo y su funcionamiento (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
- Esophageal Muscle Test (Manometry) (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
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- Find an Otolaryngologist (American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery)
- Gastrointestinal (Scleroderma Foundation Greater Washington DC)
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- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
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