I had a prof. several semesters ago who constantly spoke of the "edacious deglutition of pig". From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ADMINICLE.] Reference
Pulling out the tongue is a mistake, since irritation of nerves of deglutition stops the diaphragm. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
Just after biting I passed the tongue behind the front teeth and along the palate, completing the act of deglutition. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920] Reference
Their faces were soaked in the fat, and the noise of their deglutition was mingled with the sobs of joy which they uttered. From Wordnik.com. [Salammbo] Reference
Just after biting pass the tip of the tongue behind the front teeth and along the palate, completing the act of deglutition. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920] Reference
The windpipe lies in front of the oesophagus, although this position causes it to be some hindrance to the latter in the act of deglutition. From Wordnik.com. [On the Parts of Animals] Reference
The process of deglutition is represented as follows. From Wordnik.com. [The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia] Reference
The passage down the oesophagus is called deglutition. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
In a pause of mastication and deglutition, Lady Tippins, contemplating. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
At last deglutition became impossible and the patient died of malnutrition. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
By right mastication, deglutition, etc., we are thus developing speech organs. From Wordnik.com. [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference
It may also bulge the soft palate towards the mouth and interfere with deglutition. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
It is of slow growth, and as the organ enlarges it interferes with deglutition and speech. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Immersed in his food and its deglutition, he was hardly sensible of the outside world at all. From Wordnik.com. [The Loudwater Mystery] Reference
Quimbleton had to delay his reply until deglutition had mastered a bulky consignment of shrimp. From Wordnik.com. [In the Sweet Dry and Dry] Reference
Enos of Brooklyn in 1854 reported absence of the epiglottis without interference with deglutition. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
They mingled with the creaming sizzle of champagne, with the soft murmur of well-bred deglutition. From Wordnik.com. [The Freelands] Reference
But it is too big for his gullet, and he drops it in the very act and article of happy deglutition. From Wordnik.com. [Days Off And Other Digressions] Reference
Congenital absence of the tongue does not necessarily make speech, taste, or deglutition impossible. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Siam, more orthodox, sat in dumfoundered faith, and gaped at the awful deglutition of the Angel Rahoo. From Wordnik.com. [The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok] Reference
On the 4th of February, as the lady was dining with her husband, she found some difficulty in deglutition. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
He rapidly developed great pain and tumor in the larynx, together with difficulty in deglutition and speech. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
By the use of snuff, tumours are also generated in the throat, which obstruct deglutition, and even destroy life. From Wordnik.com. [The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831] Reference
He was ingeniously fed by esophageal tubes and rectal enemata; in three weeks speech and deglutition were restored. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
The stale bread and hard Dutch cheese rapidly disappeared, the boy looking very stolid during the process of deglutition. From Wordnik.com. [The Bag of Diamonds] Reference
The act of swallowing did not appear to cause distress, for he could go through the motions of deglutition without any trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
We smoked and talked and ate and slept in the old way, while the marvelous mouths in the wall resumed their strange deglutition. From Wordnik.com. [A Columbus of Space] Reference
The pain was augmented during deglutition, and almost immediately afterward he commenced to expectorate great quantities of blood. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
MANIPURA CHAKRA, Throat = neck = deglutition = UDAANA = VISHUDDHA CHAK - RA and entire body = circulation = VYAANA = SWADHISTHANA CHAKRA. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
As the depressor muscles of the hyoid are divided, there is interference with deglutition and phonation, but respiration is not affected. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
But the stomach of our State, if we may be permitted to use the expression, is, as yet, too tender and febrific to allow such a fearful deglutition. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II] Reference
One mouthful having thus been treated, a second is managed in the same way, and deglutition continues until appetite informs us that it is time to stop. From Wordnik.com. [The Physiology of Taste] Reference
An admirable mechanism, however, closes the glottis while we swallow, and we have a certain instinct which teaches us not to breathe during deglutition. From Wordnik.com. [The Physiology of Taste] Reference
Indeed, the ceaseless deglutition of mankind in this part of the world is equaled only by the answering and enormous activity of the human male kidneys. From Wordnik.com. [Winter Sunshine] Reference
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