maceration

liottaminen

kuihtuminen The act or process of macerate macerating.
The Armored Dinosaurs edited by Kenneth Carpenter 2001 http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0253339642&id=04tQ5_qJN8MC&pg=PA404&lpg=PA404&dq=maceration+food+jaws+-wine&sig=IR6uLsktDIPl6c3h9-BGXgS0rE8 google print ref

... proposed that the small size of the teeth ... implied that most of the maceration of the food occurred after swallowing.