Dysphagia
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| What are three types of dysphagia? | Paralytic, pseudobulbar, and mechanical | |
| Describe paralytic dysphagia. | LMN, weakness & sensory impairment of oral and pharyngeal structures, weakening or absence of swallowing reflex, neurological | |
| Describe pseudobulbar dysphagia. | UMN, hypo or hypertonicity of oral and pharyngeal structures, slow or poorly coordinated swallowing reflex (dyskinesia), neurological | |
| Describe mechanical dysphagia. | Loss of oral, pharyngeal, or esophageal structures, weakness and/or sensory deficits due to trauma or surgery | |
| Define eating. | Food from plate to mouth | |
| Define feeding disorder. | Deficit in the ability to reach for food, place it in the mouth, chew or swallow it | |
| Define swallowing disorder. | A problem in deglutition or the act of moving the food from mouth to stomach | |
| Define aspiration. | The medical diagnosis of taking food, liquid, or any foreign substance into the lungs | |
| What are the two types of aspiration? | Silent and penetration | |
| Define penetration aspiration. | penetration of substance into the laryngeal vestibule, entering the airway above the larynx |
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