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reflex
(redirected from swallowing reflex)

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He concurs with the statement of the Multi-Society Task Force on PVS published in the New England Journal of Medicine that, although a swallowing reflex is initially present in most patients in a permanent vegetative state, there is "a lack of coordination in chewing and swallowing.
Consortium of Jesuit Bioethics Programs by Commonweal
He was recovering on Ward Three at Heartlands from a delayed swallowing reflex when tragedy struck last November 29.
Patient choked to death on toast by Birmingham Mail (England)
The secondary tumour in her brain stem has left her nearly blind and with no swallowing reflex.
Gas bill mix-up for dying gran; Apology as Joan hounded by firm by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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