(n.) The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Six patients had miniplates used to repair the thyroid cartilage defect after type I thyroplasty to prevent lateralization of the Silastic implant; three patients had miniplates used after hemilaryngectomy to bridge the thyroid cartilage remnants, resulting in better deglutition after hemilaryngectomy; and three patients had miniplates used to repair laryngeal fractures.
(2) Parapharyngeal space can be defined as a potential space surrounded by deglutitional and masticator muscles and their covering, superficial and middle layer of deep cervical fascia.
(3) Any method employed for the control of drooling must still allow a sufficient volume of flow for mastication, deglutition and oral hygiene.
(4) In addition, we performed cricopharyngeal myotomy to prevent postoperative deglutition disorders.
(5) Fifty-one patients with systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) underwent videofluoroscopy during barium swallow to evaluate the incidence of oropharyngeal deglutition abnormalities and to correlate the radiologic patterns of esophageal motility abnormalities with patients' clinical features.
(6) A variety of unsuspected deglutition abnormalities were documented, indicating the usefulness of radiographic evaluation after NFCE.
(7) In 1761, while still an apprentice surgeon, he made his discovery of the unique and bizarre cause--compression of the oesophagus by an aberrant right subclavian artery--of a fatal case of 'obstructed deglutition' for which he coined the term 'dysphagia lusoria' and for which he is eponymously remembered.
(8) The movement of barium bolus in one deglutition will be demonstrated exactly and except any failure.
(9) However, central ET-1 was ineffective in evoking swallowing responses when microinjected into glutamate-responsive deglutitive sites in the NTS.
(10) Depending on the degree of patency, the patulous tube showed either a synchronous change of the tympanal pressure with that of the pharyngeal cavity or an early and sudden drop of the tympanal pressure without deglutition.
(11) We studied the genesis of isolated LES relaxation in anesthetized opossums by observing the response of four components of the deglutition reflex (mylohyoid electrical activity, pharyngeal contraction, esophageal peristalsis, and LES relaxation) to pharyngeal tactile stimulation, electrical stimulation of superior laryngeal nerve (SLN) afferents or cervical vagal efferents, and to balloon distention of the esophageal body.
(12) We have found this simple procedure to yield adequate tongue bulk for normal speech and deglutition.
(13) The analysis compared videofluoroscopy with CT and endoscopic assessment, since videofluoroscopy is the only imaging method that can record dynamic motility changes during deglutition.
(14) Study parameters included posttreatment respiration, deglutition, taste, smell, and hearing function; articulation and voice analysis; and social, communicative, and vocational adjustment.
(15) To clarify this issue further, esophageal ligations were performed to prevent deglutition in utero in 63 fetal rabbits during the final trimester of pregnancy.
(16) The aim is to reduce the free space between the roof and floor of the oral cavity to permit stronger lingual propulsion during oral deglutition and better linguopalatal contact during articulation.
(17) These anatomic connections include the intimate relationship between the eustachian tube and the pharyngobasilar fascia, the attachment of the muscles of mastication and deglutition to the skull base, and vascular and nervous structures in the foramina.
(18) The mammalian upper respiratory tract is a functionally dynamic region involved in respiration, deglutition, and phonation.
(19) The patient is left after surgical management with a defect that often prevents effective speech, deglutition, and mastication.
(20) The main components in normal situation of deglutition of saliva, water or yogurt show a frequent variability.
Ingestion
Definition:
(n.) The act of taking or putting into the stomach; as, the ingestion of milk or other food.
Example Sentences:
(1) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
(2) Concentrations of several gastrointestinal hormonal peptides were measured in lymph from the cisterna chyli and in arterial plasma; in healthy, conscious pigs during ingestion of a meal.
(3) Thus, a dietary 'no observable effect level' for subchronic ingestion of C. obtusifolia seed in rats was less than 0.15%.
(4) The measurement of the intestinal metabolism of the nitrogen moiety of glutamic acid has been investigated by oral ingestion of l-[15N]glutamic acid and sampling of arterialized blood.
(5) In vivo studies were performed in five healthy subjects for at least 3 h after ingestion of radiolabeled meals.
(6) We investigated the possible contribution made by oropharyngeal microfloral fermentation of ingested carbohydrate to the generation of the early, transient exhaled breath hydrogen rise seen after carbohydrate ingestion.
(7) (2) The treated animals ingested less liquid and solid food than controls.
(8) The different hydrolytic, fermentative and methanogenic activities of these populations ensure the efficient degradation of cell wall constituent in forages (cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin) ingested by ruminants.
(9) Potassium supplementation lowers blood pressure in hypertensive patients ingesting normal amounts of sodium.
(10) The onset of the symptoms usually occurs within a few minutes after ingestion of the implicated food, and the duration of symptoms ranges from a few hours to 24 h. Antihistamines can be used effectively to treat this intoxication.
(11) The interaction between PE and E-IgG involved the extension of micropseudopods toward adherent E-IgG, the formation of a linear uniform cap of roughly 200 A between opposing cell membranes, the ingestion of E-IgG by PE into a membrane-lined compartment, and the disintegration of the ingested ligand into membranous debris.
(12) CNS excitation and seizures, manifestations of organochlorine intoxication, can occur following ingestion or inappropriate application of the 1 per cent topical formulation of lindane used to treat scabies and lice.
(13) More than half of them concerned children who ingested pesticides.
(14) Toxicity has been reported in the fetus of a woman ingesting a huge overdose of digitoxin; the same result would be anticipated with digoxin poisoning.
(15) Throughout the 7 to 42 weeks of alcohol ingestion the alcohol-treated hamsters had a significantly higher end-diastolic pressure as compared with control animals.
(16) Nontypable H. influenzae was ingested after opsonization with much less pooled human serum than was H. influenzae type b, and uptake of encapsulated S. pneumoniae was not enhanced by as much as 80% pooled human serum.
(17) A group of 36 young adult male wistar rats was fed a protein-free diet ad libitum for five weeks; a second group of 36 wistar rats ingested a purified isocaloric 12,5% casein diet for the same period.
(18) Work over the past 17 years has consistently failed to reveal any objective sign accompanying the transient sensations that some individuals experience after the experimental ingestion of monosodium glutamate and it is questionable whether the term 'Chinese Restaurant Syndrome' has any validity.
(19) Chronic ingestion of alcohol is associated with a diminished marrow granulocyte reserve and may lead to neutrocytopenia.
(20) The hyponatremia common in decompensated cirrhotics is caused by an impairment of renal free water clearance and concomitant water ingestion.