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Deglutition

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act or process of swallowing.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act or process of swallowing.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act or power of swallowing.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the act of swallowing

Word Usage

"Even so does it come to pass with the motions and action of the heart, which constitute a kind of deglutition, a transfusion of the blood from the veins to the arteries."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

ingestion intake uptake consumption

Cross Reference

muscles of deglutition

Hyponym

draft sip draught gulp aerophagia swig

Form

deglutitory

Same Context

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