deglutition

Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Van Someren gussied up Fletcher’s theories with invented medical jargon like the “secondary reflex of deglutition.”

During rest the tube is open, but it is closed during the act of deglutition.

In fact, deglutition is already pretty well advanced—as far, at least, as with the rabbit; but with this difference, that our victims will be made to grease themselves.

They had, from cold, exposure, and exhaustion, almost lost the power of mastication and deglutition.