mastication

mechanical procedure for crushing the food and its first enzymatic splitting
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mastication

Summary

mastication is a process[1]. mastication draws 129 Wikipedia views per month (process category, ranking #60 of 244).[2]

Key Facts

  • mastication's instance of is recorded as process[3].
  • mastication's instance of is recorded as biological process[4].
  • mastication's GND ID is recorded as 4531122-5[5].
  • mastication's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85081999[6].
  • mastication's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 119790830[7].
  • mastication's location is recorded as mouth[8].
  • mastication's subclass of is recorded as part of the digestion process[9].
  • mastication's subclass of is recorded as feeding behavior[10].
  • mastication's subclass of is recorded as comminution[11].
  • mastication's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00575775[12].
  • mastication's part of is recorded as digestion[13].
  • mastication's part of is recorded as oral motor function[14].
  • mastication's Commons category is recorded as Mastication[15].
  • mastication's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D008409[16].
  • mastication's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 21991[17].
  • mastication's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03cczk[18].
  • mastication's MeSH tree code is recorded as G07.203.650.283.500[19].
  • mastication's MeSH tree code is recorded as G10.261.330.500[20].
  • mastication's Gene Ontology ID is recorded as GO:0071626[21].
  • mastication's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph161696[22].
  • mastication's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Chewing[23].
  • mastication's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 612.311[24].
  • mastication's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 573.35[25].
  • mastication's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1036852[26].
  • mastication's Iconclass notation is recorded as 31B6234[27].

Why It Matters

mastication draws 129 Wikipedia views per month (process category, ranking #60 of 244).[2] mastication has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] mastication is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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