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dysphagia
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Key facts
- 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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Research
89,754 papers- Dysphagia.Primary care · 2023
- Dysphagia and Swallowing Disorders.The Medical clinics of North America · 2021
- The neurorehabilitation of post-stroke dysphagia: Physiology and pathophysiology.The Journal of physiology · 2025
- Dysphagia in the elderly: management and nutritional considerations.Clinical interventions in aging · 2012
- Pediatric Dysphagia: Physiology, Assessment, and Management.Annals of nutrition & metabolism · 2015
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Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- Dysphagia
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000493
- ICPC 2 ID
- D21
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C2980
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Article
16 sectionsContents
- Classification
- Signs and symptoms
- Complications
- Causes
- Diagnosis
- Differential diagnosis
- Treatments
- Treatment strategies
- Oral vs. nonoral feeding
- Swallowing difficulties in dementia
- Treatment procedures
- Epidemiology
- Etymology
- See also
- References
- External links
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.