Deglutition [noun]

I, with grudging meekness and a prayer for another five minutes devoted to the deglutition of another liqueur brandy, acquiesced.

The different instruments or organs contained in the mouth, or closing it, and employed in manducation or deglutition.

Slept but little during the night, deglutition being very painful and throat much swollen.

Therefore, the reply of Erasistratus in his treatise On Deglutition was neither rhetoric nor logic.

Good teeth mean good deglutition; a clear eye means an active liver; scrubbiness and undersizedness mean feeble virility.

Their faces were soaked in the fat, and the noise of their deglutition was mingled with the sobs of joy which they uttered.

At the other end of the table I could see the German sitting silent and unnoticing, rapt in the joys of deglutition.

But it is too big for his gullet, and he drops it in the very act and article of happy deglutition.

A number of the consumptives as a rule complain of difficulty in deglutition.

Just after biting pass the tip of the tongue behind the front teeth and along the palate, completing the act of deglutition.