Meaning of deglutition | Babel Free

Definitions

The act or process of swallowing.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[T]he action of the gullet, that is deglutition, is performed and conſummated, the action being animall and partly Naturall.”

“The Uvula […] ſerves as an arched and ſlippery Bridge, exactly fitted every way to cover⟳ the convex Sides and Rima of the Glottis, for the Aliment to ſlide eaſily along in Deglutition; it prevents the Aliment from falling out of the Fauces into the Larynx in Deglutition; and being moved by its Muſcles, protruds the Aliment backward into the upper Part of the Fauces.”

“A man of the age of twenty-ſeven had a tubercle at the root of his tongue, for about ſix years; […] Deglutitions were rendered extremely difficult.”

“Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.”

“Sometimes they work⟳ by satire, as in the case of the ants here referred to; sometimes by terror, by spitefulness, by cunning stealthiness and tricks of decoy, by immense deglutitions, by any and all sorts of animal habits that connect⟳, with prey, ferocities, voracities and disgusts that make⟳ it symbolic of evil.”

“Some philosopher has said that the chief pleasure in a man's life, as in that of a cow, consists in the processes of mastication, deglutition, and digestion, and I am very much inclined to agree⟳ with him.”

“The movement of food from the mouth into the stomach is achieved by the act of swallowing, or deglutition[…]. Deglutition is facilitated by the secretion of saliva and mucus and involves the mouth, pharynx, and esophagus.”

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