deglutition

See also: déglutition

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French déglutition.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /diːˌɡluːˈtɪʃən/

Noun

deglutition (countable and uncountable, plural deglutitions)

  1. (physiology) The act or process of swallowing.
    • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 6, in Jane Eyre, volume II, page 174:
      […] but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
    • 1909, W. H. Hudson, chapter 22, in Afoot in England:
      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.

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