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Webster 1913 Edition
Deglutition
Degˊlu-ti′tion
,Noun.
The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing.
The muscles employed in the act of
deglutition
. Paley.
Webster 1828 Edition
Deglutition
DEGLUTITION
,Noun.
1.
The act of swallowing; as, deglutition is difficult.2.
The power of swallowing; as, deglutition is lost.Definition 2024
deglutition
deglutition
See also: déglutition
English
Noun
deglutition (countable and uncountable, plural deglutitions)
- (physiology) The act or process of swallowing.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, ch. 21:
- [J]udgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
- 1909, W. H. Hudson, Afoot in England, ch. 22:
- 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.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, ch. 21: