visceral swallow

n.

An immature swallowing pattern, as of infants, marked by a thrust of the tongue and resembling the peristaltic, wavelike, muscular contractions observed in the gut.

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Words nearby visceral swallow

visceral inversion, visceral larva migrans, visceral layer, visceral node, visceral sense, visceral swallow, visceralgia, viscero-, viscerogenic, visceroinhibitory, visceromegaly
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