mastication
咀嚼,咀嚼功能,咀嚼作用,咀嚼法
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- : the act or process of chewing: Limited ability to open the mouth may make proper mastication of food more difficult.
- : the act or process of grinding, shredding, crushing, or kneading to a pulp: In the office he could hear the soft chatter of people on their phones, the steely mastication of a paper shredder, the thwack of a coffee mug being set down.A machine with two horizontal rolls revolving in opposite directions is used for the mastication of rubber.
- : Forestry. the act or process of grinding up small trees and brush in a forest in order to thin it out or reduce the fuel available to forest fires: The remains of mastication and chipping are left on the forest floor, forming a mulch to protect the soil from compaction and erosion.
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But, right now at least, there’s hardly any coughing, and mercifully less mastication of crunchy foods.
It is a stately dance, whose aim is to slow down the unseemly business of mastication.
Thorough mastication takes time, and therefore one must not feel hurried at meals if the best results are to be secured.
Undoubtedly much of the distress known as dyspepsia is due to too hasty meals with consequent lack of proper mastication of food.
When prejudice is overcome by gnawing hunger, a fat rat makes good eating, as I know from actual and enjoyable mastication.
One of the strongest arguments ever yet brought against bread-making is, that it relieves us from the necessity of mastication.
But to this we reply, that such cakes as may be made (and such loaves even) require more mastication than the uncooked grains.