insalivate
verb (used with object)
to mix with saliva, as food.
insalivation
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a word derived from
insalivate.
Example Sentences
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Mastication means a thorough breaking up of the food into the smallest particles, and insalivation means the mixing of the small particles with the saliva.
From No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes by Rupert H. Wheldon
Roots are so easily masticable that if they are rendered more so there is danger of their being so hastily swallowed as to escape thorough insalivation, which is so necessary to ensure perfect digestion.
From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Sir Charles Alexander Cameron
The importance of thorough mastication and insalivation cannot be overestimated.
From No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes by Rupert H. Wheldon
Because they are made soft by the process of cooking and on this account do not require masticating to break them up, the first process of digestion or insalivation is usually overlooked.
From Science in the Kitchen. by Mrs. E. E. Kellogg
The thorough mixture of the saliva with the food is called insalivation.
From A Practical Physiology by Albert F. Blaisdell
