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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In physiology, the mixing of the saliva with the food in the act of eating.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) The mixing of the food with the saliva and other secretions of the mouth in eating.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun physiology, dated The
mixing offood withsaliva and otheroral secretions whileeating .
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Examples
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Roots are so easily masticable that if they are rendered more so there is danger of their being so hastily swallowed as to escape thorough insalivation, which is so necessary to ensure perfect digestion.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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The importance of thorough mastication and insalivation cannot be overestimated.
No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes Rupert H. Wheldon
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* — The work of mastication and insalivation is accomplished through organs situated in and around the mouth cavity.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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-- It is better not to drink during eating, or insalivation may be interfered with; a drink is better taken at the end of a meal.
The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan
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The mouth by its construction is well adapted to carrying on the processes of mastication and insalivation.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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For the labourer the food must be in part solid, requiring mastication and insalivation, and not rapid of digestion.
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke
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It causes insalivation by paralysis of the secretory fibers of the chorda tympani; increases the flow of bile; has no action upon the spleen.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 Various
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Mastication means a thorough breaking up of the food into the smallest particles, and insalivation means the mixing of the small particles with the saliva.
No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes Rupert H. Wheldon
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The thorough mixture of the saliva with the food is called insalivation.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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Mastication and insalivation, which are largely mechanical, prepare the food for certain chemical processes by which it is dissolved.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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