0 present participle of swallow --
1 to cause food, drink, pills, etc. to move from your mouth into your stomach by using the muscles of your throat: --
2 If something large swallows (up) another thing, it makes it disappear or stop existing separately by making it part of itself: --
Many small businesses have been swallowed (up) by large companies.
An increasing amount of the countryside is being swallowed (up) by the town.
3 to accept something without question or without expressing disagreement: --
4 to not express or show something: --
She swallowed her disappointment, saying, "That's OK, it doesn't matter."
The combination of bedside swallowing assessment and oxygen saturation monitoring of swallowng in acute stroke: a safe and humane screening tool.
The dominant complaint is one of food 'sticking' once swallowing has occurred.
Monitoring in an awake patient also may induce some degree of discomfort and sometimes deep breathing, swallowing and neck movements interfere with measurements.
The health domains described included mobility, stage of disease, pain, hoarseness, tiredness, pneumonia, swallowing and meals, psychological problems, and social support.
In oesophageal cancer, the emphasis is on the restoration of swallowing.
Interestingly, the pain can occur even whilst the patient is not swallowing.
An initial assessment is made of sensory and motor function of the swallowing mechanisms, airways protection, phonation, volitional cough and the cough reflex.
The combination of bedside swallowing assessment and oxygen saturation monitoring of swallowing in acute stroke: a safe and humane screening tool.
