masticatory

masticatory /mas·ti·ca·to·ry/ (mas´ti-kah-tor?e)

1. subserving or pertaining to mastication; affecting the muscles of mastication.

2. a remedy to be chewed but not swallowed.

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mas·ti·ca·to·ry (mst-k-tôr)

adj.

1. Of, relating to, or used in mastication.

2. Adapted for chewing.

n.

A medicinal substance that is chewed to increase salivation.

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masticatory

1. pertaining to mastication.

2. a substance to be chewed, but not swallowed.

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masticatory muscles

include the masseter, temporal, pterygoids and digastric muscles.