dysphagia

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dews-?

Proto-Indo-European *dus-

Proto-Hellenic *dus-

Ancient Greek δῠσ- (dŭs-)der.

New Latin dys-der.

English dys-

English -phagia

English dysphagia

From dys- + -phagia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈfeɪ̯d͡ʒ(i)ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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  Rhymes: -eɪdʒiə

Noun

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."

Synonyms

• dysphagy

Derived terms

• dysphagic

Translations

difficulty in swallowing

• Bulgarian: разстройство в дъвченето (razstrojstvo v dǎvčeneto)
• Catalan: disfàgia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吞嚥障礙 / 吞咽障碍 (tūnyàn zhàng'ài), 吞嚥困難 / 吞咽困难 (tūnyàn kùnnan)

• Czech: dysfagie (cs) f
• Dutch: dysfagie (nl) f
• Esperanto: disfagio
• Finnish: nielemisvaikeus, dysfagia (fi)
• French: dysphagie (fr)
• German: Schluckstörung, Dysphagie (de)
• Greek: δυσφαγία (el) f (dysfagía), δυσκαταποσία (el) (dyskataposía)
• Hungarian: dysphagia, nyelési zavar
• Indonesian: disfagia
• Irish: diosfaige m
• Italian: disfagia (it) f
• Japanese: 嚥下障害 (えんげしょうがい, engeshōgai)
• Korean: 연하곤란(嚥下困難) (yeonhagollan)
• Polish: dysfagia (pl) f
• Portuguese: disfagia f
• Spanish: disfagia (es) f
• Turkish: Yutkunma zorluğu

See also

• dysphasia (not to be confused)
• hard to swallow