Definition of saliva

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Saliva (n.) The secretion from the salivary glands.

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Ptyalin :: Ptyalin (n.) An unorganized amylolytic ferment, on enzyme, present in human mixed saliva and in the saliva of some animals..
Salivation :: Salivation (n.) The act or process of salivating; an excessive secretion of saliva, often accompanied with soreness of the mouth and gums; ptyalism..
Wax :: Wax (n.) A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; -- usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow..
Spit :: Spit (n.) To eject from the mouth; to throw out, as saliva or other matter, from the mouth..
Masticatory :: Masticatory (n.) A substance to be chewed to increase the saliva.
Ptysmagogue :: Ptysmagogue (n.) A medicine that promotes the discharge of saliva.
Salival :: Salival (a.) Salivary.
Salivary :: Salivary (a.) Of or pertaining to saliva; producing or carrying saliva; as, the salivary ferment; the salivary glands; the salivary ducts, etc..
Salivate :: Salivate (v. i.) To produce saliva, esp. in excess..
Sialogogue :: Sialogogue (n.) An agent which promotes the flow of saliva.
Slaver :: Slaver (v. i.) To be besmeared with saliva.
Froth :: Froth (n.) The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement..
Spittly :: Spittle (n.) The thick, moist matter which is secreted by the salivary glands; saliva; spit..
Maltose :: Maltose (n.) A crystalline sugar formed from starch by the action of distance of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice. It resembles dextrose, but rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power..
Salivate :: Salivate (v. t.) To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury..
Drool :: Drool (v. i.) To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools..
Spawl :: Spawl (v. i. & t.) To scatter spittle from the mouth; to spit, as saliva..
Intracellular :: Intracellular (a.) Within a cell; as, the intracellular movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the protoplasm of some vegetable cells..
Slaver :: Slaver (n.) Saliva driveling from the mouth.
Spit :: Spit (n.) The secretion formed by the glands of the mouth; spitle; saliva; sputum.
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