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What is the medical term for "difficulty swallowing or eating"?
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Dysphagia: Dysphagia is the term for difficulty swallowing.
Answered 1/24/2015
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Dysphagia is symptom: derived from the Latin words meaning difficulty of eating.
Answered 3/21/2015
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