Definition of Swallowing

1. Verb. (present participle of swallow) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Swallowing

1. swallow [v] - See also: swallow

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swallowing

swallow-tailed kite
swallow dive
swallow hole
swallow one's pride
swallow shrike
swallow up
swallow wort
swallowable
swallowe
swallowed
swallowers
swallowest
swalloweth
swallowfish
swallowing (current term)
swallows
swallowtail
swallowtails
swallowwort
swallowworts
swaly
swam
swamboite
swami
swamies
swamis
swamp
swamp ash
swamp azalea

Literary usage of Swallowing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"This man bad commenced when a lad of fifteen by swallowing marbles, and soon afterward a small penknife. After his death his esophagus was found normal, ..."

2. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology (1869)
"In proof that the faucial orifice of the Eustachian tube remains closed after the act of swallowing, Mr Toynbee referred to the sensation in the ears ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1839)
"Effects of swallowing nearly an ounce of Calomel.—The following case, related by Mr. HP ROBARTS, exhibiting the effects of swallowing a very ..."

4. Mammalian Physiology: A Course of Practical Exercises by Charles Scott Sherrington (1919)
"A strong stimulus will excite other reflex effects and not swallowing. ... Cause a swallowing reflex; note that inspiration is inhibited OBS. 66. (text-fig. ..."

5. A Treatise on the physical and medical treatment of children by William Dewees (1858)
"Bleeding to a fatal extent, swallowing the tongue, and convulsions, ... swallowing of the Tongue, and Hemorrhage. 1150. We have often heard of, ..."

6. The London Medical Gazette (1835)
"Some little difficulty of swallowing and of breathing she had experienced, but no palsy or anesthesia. Inflammation of the substance of the cord,—• A ..."

7. An Ethnologic Dictionary of the Navaho Language by Franciscans, St. Michaels, Ariz (1910)
"The illusion of swallowing the arrow is made possible by the use of a hollow sunflower stalk, into which the shaft and arrow- ..."

8. Physiology and Biochemistry in Modern Medicine by John James Rickard Macleod (1922)
"Much information has been secured by listening with a stethoscope to the sounds caused by swallowing and by observing with the x-ray the shadows produced ..."

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