deglutition
Origin of deglutition
1Other words from deglutition
- de·glu·ti·tious, adjective
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How to use deglutition in a sentence
I, with grudging meekness and a prayer for another five minutes devoted to the deglutition of another liqueur brandy, acquiesced.
Jaffery | William J. LockeThe different instruments or organs contained in the mouth, or closing it, and employed in manducation or deglutition.
An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. III (of 4) | William KirbySlept but little during the night, deglutition being very painful and throat much swollen.
An Artilleryman's Diary | Jenkin Lloyd JonesTherefore, the reply of Erasistratus in his treatise On deglutition was neither rhetoric nor logic.
On the Natural Faculties | GalenGood teeth mean good deglutition; a clear eye means an active liver; scrubbiness and undersizedness mean feeble virility.
Falling in Love | Grant Allen
British Dictionary definitions for deglutition
/ (ˌdiːɡlʊˈtɪʃən) /
the act of swallowing
Origin of deglutition
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