Definition of saliva

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

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Parotid :: Parotid (a.) Situated near the ear; -- applied especially to the salivary gland near the ear.
Slabber :: Slabber (n.) Spittle; saliva; slaver.
Masticatory :: Masticatory (n.) A substance to be chewed to increase the saliva.
Spit :: Spit (v. i.) To throw out saliva from the mouth.
Secretion :: Secretion (n.) The act of secreting; the process by which material is separated from the blood through the agency of the cells of the various glands and elaborated by the cells into new substances so as to form the various secretions, as the saliva, bile, and other digestive fluids. The process varies in the different glands, and hence are formed the various secretions..
Slaver :: Slaver (v. i.) To be besmeared with saliva.
Sialogogue :: Sialogogue (n.) An agent which promotes the flow of saliva.
Exspuition :: Exspuition (n.) A discharge of saliva by spitting.
Drool :: Drool (v. i.) To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools..
Spit :: Spit (n.) To eject from the mouth; to throw out, as saliva or other matter, from the mouth..
Gland :: Gland (n.) An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of the skin; the salivary glands of the mouth..
Ptysmagogue :: Ptysmagogue (n.) A medicine that promotes the discharge of saliva.
Salivated :: Salivated (imp. & p. p.) of Salivat.
Slavering :: Slavering (a.) Drooling; defiling with saliva.
Sympathetical :: Sympathetic (a.) Of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system or some of its branches; produced by stimulation on the sympathetic nervious system or some part of it; as, the sympathetic saliva, a modified form of saliva, produced from some of the salivary glands by stimulation of a sympathetic nerve fiber..
Spittly :: Spittle (n.) The thick, moist matter which is secreted by the salivary glands; saliva; spit..
Tartar :: Tartar (n.) A correction which often incrusts the teeth, consisting of salivary mucus, animal matter, and phosphate of lime..
Fistula :: Fistula (n.) A permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow, chronic abscess; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity and another cavity or the surface; as, a salivary fistula; an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal fistula..
Slaver :: Slaver (v. t.) To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.
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..
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