Home US English aphagia

Definition of aphagia in English:

aphagia

Pronunciation /əˈfeɪdʒ(ɪ)ə/

noun

  • 1Medicine
    Inability to swallow.

  • 2Physiology
    Inability, failure, or refusal to eat; absence or loss of the desire or need to eat; an instance of this.

Origin

Mid 19th century. From a- + -phagia, after German Aphagie.