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reflex
(redirected from swallowing reflex)

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Sleep on your back--when the spit collects back there, it triggers a swallowing reflex.
14, 1998, was especially tough on Sanchez: The left side of his face is permanently paralyzed and he lost his swallowing reflex.
Spoon Dose(TM) utilizes Fuisz Technologies' proprietary microsphere technology to package drug dosages into extremely small beads that are coated to mask taste, and respond to the normal swallowing reflex when taken with or without water.
 
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