Crossword clues for salivation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Salivation \Sal`i*va"tion\, n. [L. salivatio: cf. F. salivation.] (Physiol.) The act or process of salivating; an excessive secretion of saliva, often accompanied with soreness of the mouth and gums; ptyalism.
Note: It may be induced by direct chemical or mechanical stimulation, as in mastication of some tasteless substance like rubber, or indirectly by some agent which affects the whole system, as mercury compounds.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from French salivation or directly from Latin salivationem (nominative salivatio), noun of action from past participle stem of salivare (see salivate).
Wiktionary
n. The process of producing saliva, drooling.
WordNet
n. the secretion of saliva
Wikipedia
Salivation is an album by artist Terry Allen, released in 1999 on Sugar Hill Records. The album's title is a play on the word salvation and features an image of a smiling Jesus Christ on the cover.
Usage examples of "salivation".
Marcaine was given, the patients got a sudden and striking parasympathetic reaction with abdominal pain, salivation, perspiration, and even miotic pupils.
Many of the symptoms associated with nicotine were the same as those caused by muscarine: salivation, sweating, abdominal pain, and lacrimation-the very same symptoms that had appeared in Patty Owen and Henry Noble.
Stephen had had plenty of time to reflect upon the trifling interval between the perception of a grateful odour and active salivation and to make a variety of experiments, checked by his austerely beautiful and accurate Breguet repeater, before the door burst open and the Commodore strode in, sure-footed on the heaving deck and scattering seawater in most directions.
Then I halted them and went from one to the other, looking at their eyes, examining their mouths for salivation and finally palpating their abdomens.
When actinobacillosis affects the tongue it should be treated right at the start, when the first symptoms of salivation and swelling beneath the jaw appear.
As a result of the dog's repeatedly experiencing the conjunction of food with the sound of the bell (the conditioning stimulus), a new reflex or nervous pathway was established, connecting the registration of the sound of the bell with the salivation response - this was the conditioned reflex.
There is also the Spelling School, a very spacious building: the School of Looking glasses: the School of Swearing: the School of Critics: the School of Salivation: the School of Hobby-horses: the School of Poetry: the School of Tops [2]: the School of Spleen: the School of Gaming: with many others too tedious to recount.
Jeffrey could remember with startling clarity the moment he'd seen salivation and lacrimation that Patty had had.
Take a mouth intended for mastication and salivation, pass air from the respiratory system through it, vibrate that air by interposing the cords intended by nature to seal off the lungs when under stress, and you had the basis of the human speech mechanism.
The output of these neurons in turn eventually runs to the salivary gland, signaling for the salivation to start.
Salivation is an easy response to adjust and an animal that salivates copiously can be made to salivate in response to almost anything associated with food.
Left only was an ever-swirling thick perfume that tick led one's throat and left unexpecting mouths in a state of perpetual salivation.