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dysphagias

dysphagias is the plural of dysphagia.

Meaning of dysphagia

Noun

dysphagia (countable and uncountable, plural dysphagias)

  1. Difficulty in swallowing.
    • 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."1910, Alfred Bruck, F. W. Forbes Ross, The Diseases of the Nose, Mouth, Pharynx and Larynx, page 305
    Synonyms:
    dysphagy

Questions about dysphagias

What is dysphagias the plural of?
Dysphagias is the plural of dysphagia.

Words near dysphagias in the dictionary

  1. dyspeptics
  2. dyspeptone
  3. dyspeptones
  4. dysperistalsis
  5. dysphagia
  6. dysphagias
  7. dysphagic
  8. dysphagics
  9. dysphagocytosis
  10. dysphagy
  11. dysphania

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