Definition of "deglutitory" []

• Serving for, or aiding in, deglutition. (adjective)

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• "It is simply the failure of the diaphragmatic pinchcock to open normally in the deglutitory cycle."
• "The vagus also is directly concerned with the deglutitory act, for swallowing is impossible if both vagi are cut."
• "-- 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."