Usually means: Swallowing food or liquid process.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. deglutition: Merriam-Webster
  2. deglutition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deglutition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deglutition: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deglutition: Vocabulary.com
  6. deglutition: Wordnik
  7. deglutition: Wiktionary
  8. deglutition: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. deglutition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. deglutition: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. deglutition: Dictionary.com
  12. Deglutition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Deglutition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. deglutition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. deglutition: Rhymezone
  16. Deglutition: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. deglutition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. deglutition: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. deglutition: FreeDictionary.org
  20. deglutition: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. deglutition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. deglutition: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deglutition: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. deglutition: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Deglutition: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Deglutition: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  6. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. deglutition: Medical dictionary
  8. Deglutition: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (deglutition)

▸ noun:  (physiology) The act or process of swallowing.

Similar:
swallow, drink, disgorging, feeding, eating, disgorgement, ingestion, aspiration, uptake, absorption, more...

Opposite:
regurgitation, emesis, vomiting

Types:
swallowing, gulping, inhaling, more...

Phrases:
deglutition disorders, deglutition center, more...

Adjectives:
difficult, painful, normal, reflex, empty, obstructed, abnormal, voluntary, human, oropharyngeal, easy

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Similar:
swallow, drink, disgorging, feeding, eating, disgorgement, ingestion, aspiration, uptake, absorption, more...

Opposite:
regurgitation, emesis, vomiting

Types:
swallowing, gulping, inhaling, more...

Phrases:
deglutition disorders, deglutition center, more...

Adjectives:
difficult, painful, normal, reflex, empty, obstructed, abnormal, voluntary, human, oropharyngeal, easy



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