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Insalivation   Listen
noun
Insalivation  n.  (Physiol.) The mixing of the food with the saliva and other secretions of the mouth in eating.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Insalivation" Quotes from Famous Books



... acting upon soft food is not so apparent as the necessity for the bruising of oats is. 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. To guard against this danger, perhaps the best way would be to give pulped mangels and turnips mixed with cut straw; a mixture which could not easily be bolted. ...
— The Stock-Feeder's Manual - the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and - feeding of live stock • Charles Alexander Cameron



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