odynophagia การใช้
- Odynophagia often results in inadvertent weight loss.
- Dysphagia is distinguished from other symptoms including odynophagia, which is defined as painful swallowing, and psychogenic dysphagia is known as phagophobia.
- Pain on swallowing or odynophagia is a distinctive symptom that can be highly indicative of carcinoma, although it also has numerous other causes that are not related to cancer.
- If there are lesions on the tongue, speaking and chewing can be uncomfortable, and ulcers on the soft palate, oropharynx, or esophagus can cause odynophagia ( painful swallowing ).
- The word is derived from the Ancient Greek prefix ?, meaning " not " or " without, " and the suffix ?????, derived from the verb ??????, meaning " to eat . " It is related to dysphagia which is difficulty swallowing ( Greek prefix ???, " dys ", meaning difficult, or defective ), and odynophagia, painful swallowing ( from @ ????, " odyn ( o ) ", meaning " pain " ).