| wind-sucking | <veterinary> A vicious habit of a horse, consisting in the swallowing of air; usually associated with crib-biting, or cribbing. See Cribbing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| sucking | Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf. "I suppose you are a young barrister, sucking lawyer, or that sort of thing." (Thackeray) Sucking bottle, a feeding bottle. See Bottle. Sucking fish, the muscular first stomach of certain insects and other invertebrates which suck liquid food. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sucking behaviour | Any suction exerted by the mouth; response of the mammalian infant to draw milk from the breast. Includes sucking on inanimate objects. Not to be used for thumb sucking, which is indexed under fingersucking. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sucking cushion | An encapsuled mass of fat in the cheek on the outer side of the buccinator muscle, especially marked in the infant; supposed to strengthen and support the cheek during the act of sucking. Synonym: corpus adiposum buccae, Bichat's fat-pad, Bichat's protuberance, fat body of cheek, sucking cushion, sucking pad, suctorial pad. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sucking pad | An encapsuled mass of fat in the cheek on the outer side of the buccinator muscle, especially marked in the infant; supposed to strengthen and support the cheek during the act of sucking. Synonym: corpus adiposum buccae, Bichat's fat-pad, Bichat's protuberance, fat body of cheek, sucking cushion, sucking pad, suctorial pad. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sucking wound | A free communication between the atmosphere and the pleural space either via the lung or through the chest wall. Synonym: sucking wound. (05 Mar 2000) |