deglutition

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.