Dear Faldage: The principal reason I remember "deglutition" is experience in a Radiology clinic
where I was eager beaver enough to swallow almost a gallon of barium contrast medium so
manicky intstructor could give a spiel about the how the glottis and epiglottis keep food
from entering the trachea. A couple brownnosers kept asking questions, so I had to swallow
enough barium I thought my stomach was going to herniate out my anal orifice, it was so
heavy. For several days thereafter stools hit water in bowl with explosive force. I could tell
when the last of it left. PLONK, PLONK,PLONK.....plink,plink,plink.