mastication

How To Use mastication In A Sentence

• Mastication and emulsification of solids and liquids start the digestion process.
• Whilst waiting for my teeth to be fixed and the resumption of normal mastication, I've been eating a lot of soft instant meals.
• In this class too must be reckoned the teeth, which in some animals have but a single function, namely the mastication of the food, while in others they have an additional office, namely to serve as weapons; as is the case with all animals that have sharp interfitting teeth or that have tusks. On the Parts of Animals
• The Shark recited his speech again over the sounds of mastication. THE LAST TEMPTATION
• The ability of ruminants to store partially chewed food in one stomach chamber and to return it to the mouth for further mastication explains why they do not need, and do not have, incisors in the upper jaw.
• If the mandibles continuously carry out mastication, a large part of the finely triturated food items would be lost into the surrounding environment.
• The volubility of his tongue was only equalled by the rapidity of his invention and his powers of mastication; for, during the whole of this entertaining monodrame, his teeth were in constant motion, like the traversing beam of a steamboat; and as he was our captain as well as our guest, he certainly took the lion's share of the repast. Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer
• Besides these three several operations of digestion, there is a fourfold order of concoction: — mastication, or chewing in the mouth; chilification of this so chewed meat in the stomach; the third is in the liver, to turn this chylus into blood, called sanguification; the last is assimilation, which is in every part. Anatomy of Melancholy
• Brain activation was comprehensive during mastication.
• The so-called mastication work is taking place at two sites: 22 acres east of Interstate 5 along Antlers Drive and 130 acres west of I-5, north of Doney Creek. Redding.com Stories