Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Excessive flow of saliva.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine, salivation; a morbid and copious excretion of saliva.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Salivation, or an excessive flow of saliva.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
sialorrhea
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun excessive flow of saliva
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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To many are still practicing ptyalism over our new president and his spoken concepts.
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In the morning had a rigor; acute fever, hot sweat, appeared to be free of fever; did not sleep long; after the sleep a chill, ptyalism; in the evening, great incoherence; after a little, vomited a small quantity of dark bilious matters.
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Marsden 9.14 reports a case in which, following secondary papular syphilis and profuse spontaneous ptyalism, there was vicarious secretion of the urinary constituents from the skin.
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Marsden reports a case in which, following secondary papular syphilis and profuse spontaneous ptyalism, there was vicarious secretion of the urinary constituents from the skin.
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The event was, that as soon as the gums became sore with a slight ptyalism, the pains about the head and vertigo gradually diminished, and during the soreness of his gums entirely ceased; but I believe recurred afterwards, though in less degree.
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