deglutition

[ dee-gloo-tish-uhn ]
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nounPhysiology.
  1. the act or process of swallowing.

Origin of deglutition

1
1640–50; <French déglutition<Latin dēglūtīt(us) (past participle of dēglūtīre to swallow down, equivalent to dē-de- + glūtī(re) to swallow (see glutton1) + -tus past participle suffix) + French -ion-ion

Other words from deglutition

  • de·glu·ti·tious, adjective

Words Nearby deglutition

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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. Locke
  • The different instruments or organs contained in the mouth, or closing it, and employed in manducation or deglutition.

  • Slept but little during the night, deglutition being very painful and throat much swollen.

    An Artilleryman's Diary | Jenkin Lloyd Jones
  • Therefore, the reply of Erasistratus in his treatise On deglutition was neither rhetoric nor logic.

  • Good 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

deglutition

/ (ˌdiːɡlʊˈtɪʃən) /


noun
  1. the act of swallowing

Origin of deglutition

1
C17: from French déglutition, from Late Latin dēglūtīre to swallow down, from de- + glutīre to swallow

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