After Chewing Food, You Consciously Decide to Push the Bolus

question 137

Multiple Choice

After chewing food, you consciously decide to push the bolus to the back of your mouth into your pharynx with your tongue. This voluntary phase of swallowing is known as ________.

• A) ingestion
• B) buccal phase of deglutition
• C) mastication
• D) pharyngeal-esophageal phase of deglutition
• E) segmentation

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