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单词 deglutition
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deglutitionn.

/ˌdiːɡluːˈtɪʃən/
Etymology: < French déglutition (Paré 16th cent.), noun of action < Latin dēglūtīre : see deglute v.
Physiology.
a. The action of swallowing.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > [noun] > swallowing
swallow1340
swallowingc1440
transglutting?1541
gulleting1633
deglutition1650
transglutition1650
deglution1657
inglutition1803
ingurgitation1826
glutition1888
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 118 The action of the Gullet, that is Deglutition.
1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. ii. 135 The Nerves of the Fauces, and Muscles of Deglutition.
1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. x. 192 In a city feast..what deglutition, what anhelation!
1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 199 The difficulty of deglutition arose from the unnatural state in which the muscles of the pharynx were placed.
1862 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. i. i. 4 Persons who venture their lives in the deglutition of patent medicines.
b. In figurative senses of swallow.
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1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind vi. §19 As the stomach receives its food, so the soul receives her images by a kind of nervous deglutition.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. vi. 174 Judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) IV. 187 Even such good Catholics as the Irish chiefs had commenced a similar process of deglutition, much to their comfort.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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