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misswallowing

misswallowing is the present participle and gerund of misswallow.

Meaning of misswallow

Verb

misswallow (third-person singular simple present misswallows, present participle misswallowing, simple past and past participle misswallowed)

  1. To swallow incorrectly.
    • If the sensory branches of the laryngeal nerve (superior laryngeal nerve) are paralysed, the danger is great, for the patients, owing to the abolished reflex action, are prone to misswallow (dysphagia) , and become subject to "foreign body pneumonia."1910, Alfred Bruck, F. W. Forbes Ross, The Diseases of the Nose, Mouth, Pharynx and Larynx, page 305

Questions about misswallowing

What is misswallowing the present participle and gerund of?
Misswallowing is the present participle and gerund of misswallow.

Words near misswallowing in the dictionary

  1. missutured
  2. missutures
  3. missuturing
  4. misswallow
  5. misswallowed
  6. misswallowing
  7. misswallows
  8. missway
  9. misswayed
  10. misswaying
  11. missways

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