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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Loss of the ability to swallow.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Inability to swallow.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun the condition of difficulty in swallowing.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun loss of the ability to swallow

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  • JM knows that an aphagia is a hard fact to swallow.

    December 28, 2010