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dysphagia

Noun CEFR B2
dɪsˈfeɪ̯d͡ʒ(i)ə

Definitions

Difficulty in swallowing.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Españoldisfagia
Françaisdysphagie
Portuguêsdisfagia
12 more languages
Catalàdisfàgia
Češtinadysfagie
Esperantodisfagio
Gaeilgediosfaige
Bahasa Indonesiadisfagia
Italianodisfagia
日本語嚥下障害
한국어연하곤란
Nederlandsdysfagie
Polskidysfagia

Examples

“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."”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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