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Within a cell; as, the intracellular movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the protoplasm of some vegetable cells.

s produced divides, forming spores, and eventually sporozoites, which, penetrating to the salivary glands of the mosquito, may be introduced into a new host. The attacks of the disease coincide with the dissolution of the corpuscles and liberation of the spores and products of growth of the parasites into the blood pla…

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.

A substance to be chewed to increase the saliva. Bacon.

d watery, secreted from a gland after section or paralysis of its nerves, as the pralytic saliva.

Situated near the ear; -- applied especially to the salivary gland near the ear.

An unorganized amylolytic ferment, on enzyme, present in human mixed saliva and in the saliva of some animals.

Salivation, or an excessive flow of saliva. Quain.

A medicine that promotes the discharge of saliva.

- Rubber dam (Dentistry), a shield of thin sheet rubber clasped around a tooth to exclude saliva from the tooth.

Pertaining to saliva; of the nature of saliva.

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.

An agent which promotes the flow of saliva.

To let saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly, like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool. [Written also slaver, and slobber.]

To be besmeared with saliva. Shak.

Drooling; defiling with saliva. -- Slav"er*ing*ly, adv.

Salivation.

To scatter spittle from the mouth; to spit, as saliva. Why must he sputter, spawl, and slaver it In vain, against the people's favorite. Swift.

To eject from the mouth; to throw out, as saliva or other matter, from the mouth. "Thus spit I out my venom." Chaucer.

grips the ball between two, or three, fingers on one side (which is made slippery, as by saliva) and the thumb on the other side, and delivers it so that it slips off the fingers with the least possible friction. When pitched directly overhand a spit ball darts downward, when pitched with the arm extended sidewise it…