The act of swallowing; the process of consuming food or drink (archaic or rare medical term).
From Latin glutitio, derived from glutire (to swallow). This is an archaic medical or anatomical term, related to 'deglutition' which is still used in modern medicine.
Glutition is the forgotten ancestor of deglutition—doctors still use deglutition to describe swallowing disorders, but glutition fell out of favor because the Latin prefix de- (meaning down) made more sense for the downward motion of swallowing.
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