(1) All patients presented with severe oropharyngeal dysphagia and frequent aspiration together with pharyngooral and pharyngonasal regurgitation.
(2) Patients were divided into two groups based on etiology of dysphagia (central neurologic vs local mechanical dysfunction).
(3) The main side effect was dysphagia, which appeared to be dose related in individual patients.
(4) A patient presenting with dysphagia and weight loss was found to have a large midesophageal mass.
(5) Experience from the use of feeding plates for babies with cleft palate and from the treatment of dysphagia in patients recovering from stroke led to the design of a simple intraoral appliance.
(6) Carefull angiographic investigation can avoid misjudging the symptoms (stridor, dysphagia) and can contribute to an exact diagnosis thus preventing unnecessary operation.
(7) Complications, such as superficial ulcers, dysphagia, and strictures, were observed in 14%, 7% of emergency, and 3% of elective patients.
(8) The children (a two-year and a three-year old boy), who seemed completely healthy, sudden suffered from acute inflammation of the upper respiratory tract with dyspnea, inspiratory stridor, fever, dysphagia, and flow of saliva.
(9) A case of massive DISH in the cervical spine causing dysphagia is described.
(10) Failure to complete feeds, dysphagia, vomiting, coughing, choking and recurrent respiratory symptoms were also significantly more common in this group than in the primary anastomosis group (labeled as group A) even in the absence of stricture.
(11) Eighteen patients complained of dysphagia, but only in 12 of them did endoscopy show esophagitis.
(12) Twenty-four Bouviers with dysphagia were examined between October 1986 and October 1988.
(13) Dysphagia was progressive in all 15 and, in most cases, preceded the onset of other severe brain stem signs.
(14) However, this graft may cause dysphagia by discoordination of contractions, retrograde propulsion of a bolus, or a sustained local contraction, demonstrating the clinical problems associated with free jejunal graft reconstruction of the cervical esophagus.
(15) However, dysphagia occurred in pigs kept alive for more than a month and the main reason was malfunction of the device because of surrounding fibrosis.
(16) Records from 910 patients referred to our clinical esophageal manometry laboratory for evaluation of noncardiac chest pain between January 1983 and December 1985 were reviewed and compared with records from 251 patients referred for dysphagia.
(17) Recurrent ossifications were detected in them some years after surgery, and one of them complained of dysphagia again.
(18) This serendipitous observation antedates clinical signs and symptoms of dysphagia.
(19) The most important manometric abnormality was the feeble contractions of the pharyngeal musculature, more pronounced in patients with severe dysphagia (grade II).
(20) Six refused because of excellent relief of their dysphagia, and one was denied operation.
Swallow
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift.
(n.) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.
(v. t.) To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink.
(v. t.) To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up.
(v. t.) To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly.
(v. t.) To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up.
(v. t.) To occupy; to take up; to employ.
(v. t.) To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.
(v. t.) To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions.
(v. t.) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult.
(v. i.) To perform the act of swallowing; as, his cold is so severe he is unable to swallow.
(n.) The act of swallowing.
(n.) The gullet, or esophagus; the throat.
(n.) Taste; relish; inclination; liking.
(n.) Capacity for swallowing; voracity.
(n.) As much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water.
(n.) That which ingulfs; a whirlpool.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mild swallowing difficulties occurred in 18 patients (39%), moderate dysfunction in 23 (50%), and severe dysfunction in five (11%).
(2) The mother in Arthur Ransome's children's classic, Swallows and Amazons, is something of a cipher, but her inability to make basic decisions does mean she receives one of the finest telegrams in all literature.
(3) It was shown that gradual recovery of spike wave patterns occurred from initial water swallowing to successive dry swalllowing.
(4) All patients received an X-ray study of swallow at 3 months after the operation.
(5) A 27-year-old lady presented with history of discomfort in the throat and difficulty in swallowing for two weeks.
(6) The patients with SS produced swallowing durations significantly longer (p less than 0.05) than those of the controls for each of the two conditions.
(7) The anesthesiologist assessed the degree of neuromuscular blockade intraoperatively prior to pharmacologic reversal either by the standard method of visually counting the number of evoked thumb twitches elicited by supramaximal train-of-four stimulation of the ulnar nerve (i.e., thumb train-of-four count), or by an alternative method such as 1) visually counting the number of evoked orbicularis oculi muscle twitches elicited by supramaximal train-of-four stimulation of the facial nerve, or 2) observing the patient for clinical evidence of partial recovery (e.g., swallowing or attempts to breathe).
(8) The parameters of LES relaxation for both wet and dry swallows were similar using either a carefully placed single recording orifice or a Dent sleeve.
(9) Advisable in a first time for the feeding of patients with palliative treatment, we propose PEG for patients in position to have a long and difficult rehabilitation of swallowing.
(10) Do get yourself elected as a governor If you’re lucky, your school hasn’t yet been swallowed up by a private academy chain, and so its governing body still has ultimate power, and the headteacher is accountable to it.
(11) Contrast esophagography and swallow in the lateral projection will confirm the diagnosis.
(12) We therefore surveyed patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) regarding early adult consumption of fruits and vegetables usually eaten raw, with seeds that are swallowed or scraped with the teeth.
(13) We conclude that retained gastric peristaltic function is not a prerequisite for a good clinical outcome for swallowing and that despite vagotomy, the stomach continues to produce enough acid to maintain an acidic pH.
(14) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.
(15) An example is given illustrating 10D movements due to swallowing, speech and respiration.
(16) Swallowing of foreign bodies in elder patients is often explained by a decrease in psychological or neurological function, which undoubtedly may occur.
(17) A chronological subdivision of the swallowing act is needed for a step-by-step analysis.
(18) Information provided by postlaryngectomy barium swallow appeared to predict, but not prevent salivary fistula formation.
(19) It is especially suitable for patients having compliance problems or difficulty in swallowing tablets.
(20) Stockman said much of the $1.6tn spent by the Federal Reserve as part of its QE policy was swallowed by Wall Street and simply made bankers richer.