Deglutition

Quick meaning: Deglutition is a noun meaning (physiology) The act or process of swallowing.

Meaning

(physiology) The act or process of swallowing.

Example Sentences

[T]he action of the gullet, that is deglutition, is performed and conſummated, the action being animall and partly Naturall.

Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

A man of the age of twenty-ſeven had a tubercle at the root of his tongue, for about ſix years; […] Deglutitions were rendered extremely difficult.

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.

Word Forms

• deglutitions

Synonyms for deglutition

Depending on context, synonyms include glutition, swallow, drink.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include swallow, drink, swallowing, disgorging, feeding, eating.

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