aphagia /apha·gia/ (ah-fa´jah) refusal or inability to swallow.
aphagia
aphagia (a·f
·jēˑ·),
aphagia (
fā´jē),
a·pha·gia ( -f  j)n. See dysphagia. |
aphagia
[əfā′jē·ə]
Etymology: Gk, a + phagein, not to eat
a condition characterized by the loss of the ability to swallow as a result of organic disease or psychologic causes such as cerebrovascular accident and anxiety. A kind of aphagia is aphagia algera. See also dysphagia.
aphagia (a·f
·jēˑ·),n inability to swallow; may be psychological or physical.
aphagia (
fā´jē),n the inability to swallow.
aphagia
abstention from eating. In the case of animals a suitable translation would seem to be not to take food when it was available.
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