misswallow
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]misswallow (third-person singular simple present misswallows, present participle misswallowing, simple past and past participle misswallowed)
- To swallow incorrectly.
- 1910, Alfred Bruck, F. W. Forbes Ross, The Diseases of the Nose, Mouth, Pharynx and Larynx, page 305:
- 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."
- 1981, Muscular Dystrophy Abstracts - Volume 25, page 46:
- Thus, hemiplegic patients are hemiplegic in deglutitory movements also and are ready to misswallow.
- 2004, Jane Alison, The Marriage of the Sea:
- He looked up the embankment directly at Vera and then through Vera at Lach, who misswallowed his drink and was coughing by the time Vera reached him.
- 2012, Sophie Perinot, The Sister Queens:
- I misswallow some of my own wine and am left coughing.
- 2013, John Whitbourn, The Royal Changeling:
- Old Path's drinking noises turned to bubbling as he misswallowed.