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Salivary

adjective
1.
Of or relating to saliva.



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"Salivary" Quotes from Famous Books



... one of the algae, viz., leptothrix, has as yet acquired any importance as a producer of disease. It gives rise to the formation of concretions, and that not only in the mouth, but also, as I have shown, in the salivary ducts ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 303 - October 22, 1881 • Various
... irritability, and many of them with sensibility; the latter perhaps in consequence of their facility of being excitable into great action; instances of this are the terminations of the gall-duct in the duodenum, and of the salivary and lachrymal glands in the mouth and eye; which produce a greater secretion of their adapted fluids, when the ends of their excretory ducts ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin


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