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The soft and yielding texture of this organ—the stomach—indicates that it is not designed to crush and comminute solid articles of food.

From A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers by Hutchison, Joseph Chrisman

The stomach is well muscled and churns the food about, helping to comminute it, but it can not take the place of the teeth.

From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by Alsaker, R. L.

That the stomach is fully able to comminute the food may be proved by the following calculation.

From The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 by Osler, William

In exceptional cases it may be necessary to comminute a large foreign body such as a tooth plate.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier

As old people, thro’ diminution of appetite, open their mouths seldomer than formerly; so for want of teeth to comminute their food, they do it with less noise.

From Medica Sacra or a Commentary on on the Most Remarkable Diseases Mentioned in the Holy Scriptures by Mead, Richard