digestion
Spittle is another word for saliva or drool. It is the fluid that is produced in the mouth to help with chewing and swallowing food.
manducate
eat
The purpose of mastication is to break down food into smaller pieces and mix it with saliva to aid in swallowing and digestion. This process also helps release nutrients from the food for absorption in the body.
Mastication is another word for chewing.
Choke as in "choke it down"
something that you do with your food that rhymes with threw is to chew
The word, masticate, means to chew, as in "Masticate (chew) your food well before swallowing."
Yes, the word 'chewing' is a gerund, the present participle of the verb to chew that functions as a noun in a sentence. example: We need our teeth for chewing food. (the gerund is the object of the preposition 'for')
Yes, "chewing" is an action word, also known as a verb. It describes the action of using the teeth to break down food into smaller pieces by moving the jaw up and down.
Chewing physically breaks food, while the saliva chemically breaks it down.
the scientific word that means difficult swallowing is " Dysphagia " ..