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Difficulty in swallowing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
condition in which swallowing is difficult or painful
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: disorder, upset
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.
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
разстройство в дъвченето
(razstrojstvo v dǎvčeneto)
— difficulty in swallowing
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Catalan:
disfàgia
— difficulty in swallowing
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Chinese Mandarin:
吞嚥障礙 /吞咽障碍
(tūnyàn zhàng'ài)
— difficulty in swallowing
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Chinese Mandarin:
吞嚥困難 /吞咽困难
(tūnyàn kùnnan)
— difficulty in swallowing
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Czech:
dysfagie
— difficulty in swallowing
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Dutch:
dysfagie
— difficulty in swallowing
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Esperanto:
disfagio
— difficulty in swallowing
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Finnish:
nielemisvaikeus
— difficulty in swallowing
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Finnish:
dysfagia
— difficulty in swallowing
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French:
dysphagie
— difficulty in swallowing
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German:
Schluckstörung
— difficulty in swallowing
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German:
Dysphagie
— difficulty in swallowing
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Greek:
δυσφαγία
(dysfagía)
— difficulty in swallowing
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Greek:
δυσκαταποσία
(dyskataposía)
— difficulty in swallowing
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Hungarian:
dysphagia
— difficulty in swallowing
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Hungarian:
nyelési zavar
— difficulty in swallowing
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Indonesian:
disfagia
— difficulty in swallowing
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Irish:
diosfaige
— difficulty in swallowing
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Italian:
disfagia
— difficulty in swallowing
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Japanese:
嚥下障害
(engeshōgai)
— difficulty in swallowing
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Korean:
연하곤란
(yeonhagollan)
— difficulty in swallowing
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Polish:
dysfagia
— difficulty in swallowing
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Portuguese:
disfagia
— difficulty in swallowing
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Spanish:
disfagia
— difficulty in swallowing
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Turkish:
Yutkunma zorluğu
— difficulty in swallowing