dysphagia

From dys- +‎ -phagia.

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈfeɪ̯d͡ʒ(i)ə/

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  Rhymes: -eɪdʒiə

dysphagia (countable and uncountable, plural dysphagias)

1. (medicine) 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."

• dysphagy