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dysphagia

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Medical condition (new).name: Dysphagia
Medical condition (new).field: Gastroenterology, phoniatrics
Medical condition (new).image: Tractus intestinalis esophagus.svg
Medical condition (new).caption: The digestive tract, with the esophagus marked in red
Medical condition (new).symptoms: Inability or difficulty swallowing
Medical condition (new).complications: Pulmonary aspiration, malnutrition, starvation, anorexia nervosa
Medical condition (new).causes: Esophageal cancer, Esophagitis, Stomach cancer, mental illness, alcoholism, refeeding syndrome, starvation, infection, gastritis, malnutrition

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Signs and symptoms
Complications
Causes
Diagnosis
Differential diagnosis
Treatments
Treatment strategies
Oral vs. nonoral feeding
Swallowing difficulties in dementia
Treatment procedures
Epidemiology
Etymology
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Dysphagia is difficulty in swallowing. Although classified under "symptoms and signs" in ICD-10, in some contexts it is classified as a condition in its own right.

It may be a sensation that suggests difficulty in the passage of solids or liquids from the mouth to the stomach, a lack of pharyngeal sensation or various other inadequacies of the swallowing mechanism. Dysphagia is distinguished from other symptoms including odynophagia, which is defined as painful swallowing, and globus, which is the sensation of a lump in the throat. A person can have dysphagia without odynophagia (dysfunction without pain), odynophagia without dysphagia (pain without dysfunction) or both together. A psychogenic dysphagia is known as phagophobia.