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Swallows are usually seen gliding overhead or darting low over pastures and close to waterways and ponds, catching insects on the wing.
In-flight entertainment: small, dark and fast-moving, swifts and swallows make challenging photographic subjects. But with a bit of inside knowledge, capturing these summer migrants becomes distinctly easier
The overall aim of the toolkit is to prevent acute stroke patients with normal swallows being placed nil by mouth and to prevent patients who have difficulty swallowing from being fed inappropriately.
Bedside 'swallow test' for stroke patients; SCREENING WOULD REDUCE TIME SPENT ON NIL BY MOUTH
After it saved by the charitable merciful hands a Turkish man took swallow away to give it water.
Swallow Saved with Breathtaking Operation
In pieces such as Large Crucible (indigo), Swallow showed off his alchemical knack for making one material look alarmingly like another: The vessel's rich indigo patina perfectly mimicked a ceramic glaze.
Ricky Swallow
This relatively large number of patients with dysphagia reflects the large number of medical problems which can cause abnormalities in the swallow mechanism.
Dysphagia: address promptly to avoid serious complications
Cheshire Wildlife Trust's Bickley Hall Farm plays host to several pairs of migratory swallows each summer, and staff were excited when a pair began to raise a family with close-up footage from tiny cameras shown on YouTube.
Web-cam bird success; CONSERVATION
As the bolus passes the posterior faucal (tonsil) arches the swallow becomes reflexive under the control of the brainstem.
Dysphagia: dysphagia is a distressing symptom, which can have far-reaching effects on a patient's life
Just three years ago the hotels changed hands when London & Edinburgh Swallow Group went into administration and Crerar Hotels took over the Swallow brand and the hotel leases.
Hotels for sale twice in three years
was the only study that compared the relationship between disordered respiration (respirography) and swallow (surface electromyography) using simultaneous measures [11].
Oropharyngeal dysphagia in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic review/Disfagia orofaringea em pacientes com doenca pulmonar obstrutiva cronica: revisao sistematica
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In 1972, Larsen was the first to introduce the notion of behavioral interventions to improve swallow function, describing the use of "neck-flexed postures" and "breath-holding maneuvers" to facilitate a safe, functional swallow [10].
Evidence-based systematic review: oropharyngeal dysphagia behavioral treatments. Part II--Impact of dysphagia treatment on normal swallow function
1 : to take into the stomach through the mouth and throat <Chew your food well before you swallow.
swallow [2]
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SOME people believe that if you swallow a lump of chewing gum it will stay inside your body for seven years.
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