deglutition

[ dee-gloo-tish-uhn ]

noun

, Physiology.

1. the act or process of swallowing. swallow.

deglutition

/ ˌdiːɡlʊˈtɪʃən /

noun

1. the act of swallowing

Other Words From

• deglu·titious adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of deglutition¹

1640–50; < French déglutition < Latin dēglūtīt ( us ) (past participle of dēglūtīre to swallow down, equivalent to dē- de- + glūtī ( re ) to swallow ( glutton ¹ ) + -tus past participle suffix) + French -ion -ion

Word History and Origins

Origin of deglutition¹

C17: from French déglutition, from Late Latin dēglūtīre to swallow down, from de- + glutīre to swallow

Example Sentences

I, with grudging meekness and a prayer for another five minutes devoted to the deglutition of another liqueur brandy, acquiesced.

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The different instruments or organs contained in the mouth, or closing it, and employed in manducation or deglutition.

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Slept but little during the night, deglutition being very painful and throat much swollen.

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Therefore, the reply of Erasistratus in his treatise On Deglutition was neither rhetoric nor logic.

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Good teeth mean good deglutition; a clear eye means an active liver; scrubbiness and undersizedness mean feeble virility.

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