Reviewing a client's chart, the nurse finds that the client has odynophagia. The nurse questions the client about experience with
a. dulled taste.
b. intermittent difficulty with swallowing.
c. knife-like pain.
d. throbbing sensations in the throat.
C
Pain that affects the esophageal mucosa and occurs with swallowing is called odynophagia. The client usually describes the pain as sharp, constricting, sticking, crushing, stabbing, or knife-like.
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