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deglutition Phys.|ˌdiːgluːˈtɪʃən|
[a. F. déglutition (Paré 16th c.), n. of action f. L. dēglūtīre: see deglute.]
The action of swallowing.
1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 118 The action of the Gullet, that is Deglutition. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. ii. 135 The Nerves of the Fauces, and Muscles of Deglutition. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. (1804) 195 In a city feast..what deglutition, what anhelation! 1804Abernethy Surg. Obs. 199 The difficulty of deglutition arose from the unnatural state in which the muscles of the pharynx were placed. 1861Lowell Biglow P. Poems 1890 II. 216 Persons who venture their lives in the deglutition of patent medicines.
b. In fig. senses of swallow.
1764Reid Inquiry vi. §19 As the stomach receives its food, so the soul receives her images by a kind of nervous deglutition. 1848C. Brontë J. Eyre (1857) 241 Judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. IV. 187 Even such good Catholics as the Irish chiefs had commenced a similar process of deglutition, much to their comfort. |