Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Serving for deglutition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Serving for, or aiding in, deglutition.
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- adjective Serving for, or aiding in,
deglutition .
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Examples
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It is simply the failure of the diaphragmatic pinchcock to open normally in the deglutitory cycle.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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The vagus also is directly concerned with the deglutitory act, for swallowing is impossible if both vagi are cut.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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-- Having mastered the technic of introduction on the cadaver and trained the eye and fingers by practice work on the rubber tube, experience should be had in the living lower air and food passages with their pulsatory, respiratory, bechic and deglutitory movements, and ever-present secretions.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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The normal movements of the trachea and bronchi are respiratory, pulsatory, bechic, and deglutitory.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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It is the failure of the diaphragmatic pinchcock to open, as in the normal deglutitory cycle, rather than a spasmodic tightness, that obstructs the food.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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It is the failure of this hiatal sphincter to open as in the normal deglutitory cycle that produces the syndrome called
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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The man has never been a child who has not been requested to take a dose of physic or bear a mustard plaster like a little captain, thereby inspiring himself with the greatest respect and admiration for the immense deglutitory capacity of that functionary, and the callosity of his epidermis.
Sea-Gift. A Novel. Edwin Wiley 1873
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