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The term for the inability to eat or swallow is "dysphagia." This condition can result from various factors, including neurological disorders, structural abnormalities, or muscular issues. Dysphagia can lead to complications such as malnutrition or aspiration pneumonia if not properly managed. It's important for individuals experiencing this condition to seek medical evaluation and treatment.
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What is a ramification of tooth decay?
inability to swallow
Is inability to swallow a complication of COPD?
aphagia
An inability to swallow indicates a problem with?
Glossopharyngeal
Which word from the Latin root meaning to to eat greedily?
"Devour", from the Latin word vorare, "to swallow whole; to eat greedily".
If you eat 7 saltines but dont swallow them does it count?
No, dummy you have eat them. as in swallow...
Is the inability to swallow defined the same as difficulty to swallow?
Not necessarily. Both the inability to swallow and difficulty swallowing are called dysphagia in medical terminology. dys- means difficult, bad, abnormal, painful. -phagia refers to eating or swallowing. Sometimes the dysphagia, or difficulty swallowing can be bad enough to prevent someone from swallowing without aspirating(choking). That would appropriately be called dysphagia even though this makes for a virtual inability to swallow, but that is due to danger of choking, not due to actual emotional or physical inability to do the act of swallowing. But there can be situations with a total actual inability to swallow due to obstruction, emotional block, injury, congenital deformity, or surgical procedures that prevent swallowing such as radical surgery for cancer. These may be referred to as either dysphagia, or more correctly, as aphagia. a- means absent, without, not, away In this example, difficulty swallowing would not be called aphagia. But the inability to swallow might appropriately be called dysphagia.
How can you use the word inability in a sentence?
This is a inability person.
How does kuru effects your body?
-uncontrollable laughing -inability to swallow -coordination problems -speech problems
Is the medical word phagia a suffix or a word root?
The medical word "phagia" is a suffix. It is derived from the Greek word "phagein," which means "to eat." In medical terminology, words ending in "-phagia" generally refer to eating or swallowing.
What does a swallow swallow?
Swallows are great fliers and catch and eat flying insects.
What does tragalo mean in spanish?
"Tragalo" can be translated to "swallow it" or "eat it" in English.
What are Sings of west Nile virus with horses?
On Howrse the answer is : All of these (fever, inability to swallow and paralysis of hind legs).
