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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Producing a flow of saliva; ptyalogogue.
  2. n. A drug which produces a flow of saliva.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any drug that increases the flow of saliva.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Med.) An agent which promotes the flow of saliva.

Etymologies

  1. Ancient Greek saliva + leading. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Also a powerful sialogogue and valuable in diseases where mouth and throat get dry, and for sore throat; will relieve difficult breathing and produce moisture if given in very small doses of the powder.”

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Words with the same meaning

  1. ptyalagogue

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  1. jaborandi
  1. ptysmagogue
  1. sialogogic
  1. pellitory

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