Meaning of misswallow | Babel Free

Definitions

To swallow incorrectly.

Examples

“If the sensory branches of the laryngeal nerve (superior laryngeal nerve) are paralysed, the danger is great, for the patients, owing to the abolished reflex action, are prone to misswallow (dysphagia) , and become subject to "foreign body pneumonia."”

“Thus, hemiplegic patients are hemiplegic in deglutitory movements also and are ready to misswallow.”

“He looked up the embankment directly at Vera and then through Vera at Lach, who misswallowed his drink and was coughing by the time Vera reached him.”

“I misswallow some of my own wine and am left coughing.”

“Old Path's drinking noises turned to bubbling as he misswallowed.”

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