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r process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing. The muscles employed in the act of deglutition. Paley.

Pertaining to deglutition. [R.]

Serving for, or aiding in, deglutition.

ef symptoms are, a sense of dryness and construction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow, or is disturbed in any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies; canine madness. [Written also hyd…

pecially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy, and squinzey.