Biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow.
Mechanical procedure for crushing the food and its first enzymatic splitting.
1 There was a long moment with neither reply nor sounds of mastication .
2 Explain the change that has taken place in the cracker by mastication .
3 A fact which was evident from the gusto resorted to in mastication .
4 Limiting radiation dose to the muscles of mastication could prevent this complication.
5 They were like hungry dogs laboring with a difficult problem of mastication .
6 A truffle had thus escaped mastication , and almost whole had been swallowed.
7 While the mastication is going on the saliva becomes mixed with the food.
8 Nor are the benefits of mastication confined wholly to the process of digestion.
9 In eating nuts, always remember that the mastication must be thorough.
10 Fifty-three percent of the recorded neurons showed significant alterations of activity during mastication .
11 By thorough mastication the succeeding digestive processes are more easily and completely performed.
12 Thorough mastication means masticating up to the point of involuntary swallowing.
13 Bananas should also be withheld until there is no doubt about the mastication .
14 And he was perfectly frank about the intimate processes of mastication .
15 If there is one thing more important than another, it is thorough mastication .
16 He swallowed hard as if her answer were a mouthful that resisted mastication .
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Mastication в диалектах
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