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Meanings of deglutition in English

Portuguese
deglutição
Catalan
deglució

The act of swallowing.

        deglutição
        Usage of deglutition in English
        1
        So we have poems of dejection, of reflection, of deglutition, of indigestion.
        Literary Lapses
        2
        Then it swallowed its prey slowly with the deglutition of a boa constrictor.
        Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel
        3
        At last deglutition became impossible and the patient died of malnutrition.
        Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
        4
        Enos of Brooklyn in 1854 reported absence of the epiglottis without interference with deglutition.
        Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
        5
        To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.
        The Devil's Dictionary
        6
        Congenital absence of the tongue does not necessarily make speech, taste, or deglutition impossible.
        Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
        7
        This is rather hard upon the health, because it requires the deglutition of innumerable potions.
        The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3
        8
        They mingled with the creaming sizzle of champagne, with the soft murmur of well-bred deglutition.
        The Freelands
        9
        Quimbleton had to delay his reply until deglutition had mastered a bulky consignment of shrimp.
        In the Sweet Dry and Dry
        10
        The actual process of deglutition is variously enacted.
        The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
        11
        It is of slow growth, and as the organ enlarges it interferes with deglutition and speech.
        Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
        12
        He rapidly developed great pain and tumor in the larynx, together with difficulty in deglutition and speech.
        Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
        13
        Immersed in his food and its deglutition, he was hardly sensible of the outside world at all.
        The Loudwater Mystery
        14
        She erst with deglutition had drawn in.
        The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and All...
        15
        He was ingeniously fed by esophageal tubes and rectal enemata; in three weeks speech and deglutition were restored.
        Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
        16
        The pattern of jaw movements is changed during a masticatory sequence from ingestion of food to its deglutition.
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        Translations for deglutition
        Portuguese
        deglutição
        Catalan
        deglució
        Deglutition through the time