(n.) Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift.
(n.) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.
(v. t.) To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink.
(v. t.) To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up.
(v. t.) To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly.
(v. t.) To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up.
(v. t.) To occupy; to take up; to employ.
(v. t.) To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.
(v. t.) To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions.
(v. t.) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult.
(v. i.) To perform the act of swallowing; as, his cold is so severe he is unable to swallow.
(n.) The act of swallowing.
(n.) The gullet, or esophagus; the throat.
(n.) Taste; relish; inclination; liking.
(n.) Capacity for swallowing; voracity.
(n.) As much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water.
(n.) That which ingulfs; a whirlpool.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mild swallowing difficulties occurred in 18 patients (39%), moderate dysfunction in 23 (50%), and severe dysfunction in five (11%).
(2) The mother in Arthur Ransome's children's classic, Swallows and Amazons, is something of a cipher, but her inability to make basic decisions does mean she receives one of the finest telegrams in all literature.
(3) It was shown that gradual recovery of spike wave patterns occurred from initial water swallowing to successive dry swalllowing.
(4) All patients received an X-ray study of swallow at 3 months after the operation.
(5) A 27-year-old lady presented with history of discomfort in the throat and difficulty in swallowing for two weeks.
(6) The patients with SS produced swallowing durations significantly longer (p less than 0.05) than those of the controls for each of the two conditions.
(7) The anesthesiologist assessed the degree of neuromuscular blockade intraoperatively prior to pharmacologic reversal either by the standard method of visually counting the number of evoked thumb twitches elicited by supramaximal train-of-four stimulation of the ulnar nerve (i.e., thumb train-of-four count), or by an alternative method such as 1) visually counting the number of evoked orbicularis oculi muscle twitches elicited by supramaximal train-of-four stimulation of the facial nerve, or 2) observing the patient for clinical evidence of partial recovery (e.g., swallowing or attempts to breathe).
(8) The parameters of LES relaxation for both wet and dry swallows were similar using either a carefully placed single recording orifice or a Dent sleeve.
(9) Advisable in a first time for the feeding of patients with palliative treatment, we propose PEG for patients in position to have a long and difficult rehabilitation of swallowing.
(10) Do get yourself elected as a governor If you’re lucky, your school hasn’t yet been swallowed up by a private academy chain, and so its governing body still has ultimate power, and the headteacher is accountable to it.
(11) Contrast esophagography and swallow in the lateral projection will confirm the diagnosis.
(12) We therefore surveyed patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) regarding early adult consumption of fruits and vegetables usually eaten raw, with seeds that are swallowed or scraped with the teeth.
(13) We conclude that retained gastric peristaltic function is not a prerequisite for a good clinical outcome for swallowing and that despite vagotomy, the stomach continues to produce enough acid to maintain an acidic pH.
(14) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.
(15) An example is given illustrating 10D movements due to swallowing, speech and respiration.
(16) Swallowing of foreign bodies in elder patients is often explained by a decrease in psychological or neurological function, which undoubtedly may occur.
(17) A chronological subdivision of the swallowing act is needed for a step-by-step analysis.
(18) Information provided by postlaryngectomy barium swallow appeared to predict, but not prevent salivary fistula formation.
(19) It is especially suitable for patients having compliance problems or difficulty in swallowing tablets.
(20) Stockman said much of the $1.6tn spent by the Federal Reserve as part of its QE policy was swallowed by Wall Street and simply made bankers richer.
Tablet
Definition:
(n.) A small table or flat surface.
(n.) A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.
(n.) Hence, a small picture; a miniature.
(n.) A kind of pocket memorandum book.
(n.) A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.
(n.) A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.
Example Sentences:
(1) HDL cholesterol and apolipoprotein A-1 decreased 17.6% and 27.9%, respectively, in the 1-tablet group compared with 28.0% and 38.3%, respectively, in the 4-tablet group (p = 0.07 and p = 0.06).
(2) Blood pressure profile was significantly reduced by verapamil up to 20 hours after tablet administration, while from 21 to 24 hours after drug intake BP values were similar to placebo.
(3) After stabilization of glycemic control on gliclazide, they took a 40 mg tablet of gliclazide either 30 minutes before, immediately before, or immediately after breakfast on 3 consecutive days.
(4) By moving an electronic pen over a digitizing tablet, the subject could explore a line drawing stored in memory; on the display screen a portion of the drawing appeared to move behind a stationary aperture, in concert with the movement of the pen.
(5) Side effects were eliminated within 14 days of administration of 2 tablets daily of KN-10055 in 15 cases, which was thought to be a very good result; within 28 days in 13 cases, a good result; and in more than 28 days in 3 cases.
(6) Patients with moderate or severe rheumatoid disease of the hands often could not extract tablets from blister packs.
(7) Two commercial slow-release potassium chloride tablets, Slow-K and Addi-K have the characteristics of slow-release in the different dissolution conditions.
(8) This is the first reported case, to the best of my knowledge, of disk neovascularization occurring after intravenously injected, crushed, unfiltered, methylphenidate HCl tablets.
(9) An epidemic of abuse with "T's and blues" began in the late 1970's in which pentazocine-Talwin tablets ("T")--and the antihistamine tripelennamine (known as blues) were crushed, dissolved together, filtered, and injected intravenously.
(10) The procainamide plasma concentration was followed during maintenance therapy with a new procainamide retard tablet preparation in 23 hospitalized patients suffering from acute or chronic coronary heart disease with complicating ventricular arrhythmias.
(11) He argues that whenever you have periods of crazy expansion of virtual credit, like today, you either have to have a safety valve of forgiveness, like in Mesopotamia where you wiped the tablets clean every seven years, or you have an outbreak of social violence so intense you rip society apart.
(12) As soon as the component with the lower mechanical stability is percolating the powder system, tablet hardness is controlled entirely by this component.
(13) Dopamine agonist Bromocriptin tablet has been used in 102 cases, partly for the inhibition of puerperal lactation, partly for the treatment of infertility accompanied by hyperprolactinaemia.
(14) Following oral administration of 200 mg of E in capsules, tablets, or a solution dosage form to dogs, etintidine was rapidly and nearly completely absorbed with no significant first-pass elimination.
(15) The potassium concentrations in erythrocytes, serum and urine were continously determined in 3 patients who had taken acetyldigoxin (45 to 100 tablets Novodigal à 0,2 mg) in order to commit suicide.
(16) A further increase in silicon dioxide concentration produced tablets with relatively larger pore sizes.
(17) The rate of release of the drug from the compressed tablet containing the complex was significantly retarded in solutions at low pH and increased with increase in pH, and this was reflected in the blood levels in the dog after the oral administration.
(18) Can consoles still survive in a rapidly changing business where smartphones, tablets and smart TVs, and now Steam Machines, are threatening?
(19) Administration of a tablet in a tablespoon of yoghurt is a good alternative, even though the bioavailability of certain preparations may be reduced.
(20) Lethargy and somnolence were reported on both capsule and tablet by several subjects at a time which corresponded with the maximum concentration of drug in plasma.