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The secretion from the salivary glands.

Salivary.

Producing salivation.

Of or pertaining to saliva; producing or carrying saliva; as, the salivary ferment; the salivary glands; the salivary ducts, etc.

To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury. over.; as, salivate over the prospects of high profits from an enterprise.

The act or process of salivating; an excessive secretion of saliva, often accompained with soreness of the mouth and gums; ptyalism.

The mixing of the food with the saliva and other secretions of the mouth in eating.

Checking the flow of saliva.

elicate framework which remains when the soluble part (granulose) of starch is removed by saliva or pepsin. Goodale.

A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands.

ch sugar. It is also formed from starchy food by the action of the amylolytic ferments of saliva and pancreatic juice.

sion of starch into sugar. The influence of acids and alkalies on the diastatic action of saliva. Lauder Brunton.

Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.

To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools. His mouth drooling with texts. T. Parker.

A discharge of saliva by spitting. [R.] E. Darwin.

; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity and another cavity or the surface; as, a salivary fistula; an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal fistula. Incomplete fistula (Med.), a fistula open at one end only.

s caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.

ng to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of the skin; the salivary glands of the mouth.

e substance acted upon to take up a molecule of water. Thus, diastase of malt, ptyalin of saliva, and boiling dilute sulphuric acid all convert starch by hydration into dextrin and sugar. Nearly all of the digestive ferments are hydrolytic in their action.

The disease caused by a bite form, or inoculation with the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and construction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow,…