Odynophagia is: (A) Pain during swallowing, (B) Difficulty in swallowing, (C) Bad odour from mouth, (D) Psychiatric disease
Answer is A. Dysphagia is difficulty in swallowing. The term odynophagia is used when swallowing causes pain. The latter is more marked in ulcerative and inflammatory lesions of food passages - oral cavity, oropharynx and oesophagus. (Ref: Textbook of diseases of ENT, PL Dhingra, 7th edition, pg no. 393)