Patient (condition)
 
Aliases:
Hiccough
Hiccups
Hiccouphs

Topic aliases are alternate phrasings for a particular topic.


A spasm of the diaphragm that causes a sudden inhalation followed by rapid closure of the glottis which produces a sound.
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Several case reports describing the use of "digital rectal massage" as a vagal stimulus to terminate intractable hiccups have been published.

Dr Francis Fesmire won the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize for his 1988 paper in Annals of Emergency Medicine



"Termination of intractable hiccups via digital rectal massage"
Original paper - 1988 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubm...
Follow up case reports -1990 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubm...

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