DEGLUTITION
\dɪɡluːtˈɪʃən], \dɪɡluːtˈɪʃən], \d_ɪ_ɡ_l_uː_t_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of DEGLUTITION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the act of swallowing; "one swallow of the liquid was enough"; "he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips"
By Princeton University
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the act of swallowing; "one swallow of the liquid was enough"; "he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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Deglutitio, Cataposis, from de, and glutire, glutitum, 'to swallow.' The act by which substances are passed from the mouth into the stomach, through the pharynx and oesophagus. It is one of a complicated character, and requires the aid of a considerable lumber of muscles; the first step being voluntary, the remainder executed under spinal and involuntary nervous influence.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The act of swallowing; effected by a series of movements, partly automatic, partly under the control of the will, by which a substance is carried from the mouth into the stomach.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin] Act of swallowing;—power of swallowing.