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Definition of Dysphagia
1. Noun. Condition in which swallowing is difficult or painful.
Definition of Dysphagia
1. n. Difficulty in swallowing.
Definition of Dysphagia
1. Noun. difficulty in swallowing ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dysphagia
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Medical Definition of Dysphagia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dysphagia
Literary usage of Dysphagia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Diagnostics of internal medicine: A Clinical Treatise Upon the by Glentworth Reeve Butler (1909)
"Ordinary laryngitis causes some uneasiness in swallowing. dysphagia may be due
to cancer of the larynx, and the atro- cious pain attending tuberculous ..."
2. The Medical Times and Gazette (1866)
"The paralytic forms of pharyngeal dysphagia may be due, 1st, to disease of the brain
... In the first form, the dysphagia is associated with hemi- plegia, ..."
3. A Treatise on surgery by Timothy Holmes (1875)
"Nervous dysphagia is more common in women than in men ; it often is conjoined
with symptoms clearly hysterical ; the patient, ..."
4. Pathological and Practical Researches on Diseases of the Stomach, the by John Abercrombie (1830)
"PATHOLOGY OF dysphagia. THE subject of dysphagia has been so fully treated ...
The causes of dysphagia, in as far as I have had occasion to observe them in ..."
5. The Transactions of the New York Academy of Medicine by New York Academy of Medicine (1886)
"FEW expressions suggest to the mind of the experienced physician so much of
extreme suffering as does the word dysphagia. To the patient, already enfeebled ..."
6. A Practical Treatise on the Diagnosis, Pathology, and Treatment of Diseases by Austin Flint (1859)
"Pressure of the tumor on the oesophagus interferes with the function of deglutition,
giving rise to dysphagia from obstruction. This is liable to occur when ..."
7. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1922)
"The dysphagia usually began suddenly and in many instances the patients dated
the onset of their symptoms from a time when they choked on a piece of solid ..."
8. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1919)
"DIET IN dysphagia dysphagia may be due to any obstruction in the mouth, pharynx,
or esophagus. The difficulty and pain induced by swallowing must be ..."
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