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Salivary  adj.  (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to saliva; producing or carrying saliva; as, the salivary ferment; the salivary glands; the salivary ducts, etc.






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"Salivary" Quotes from Famous Books



... The Salivary Glands. Now, where does this saliva in the mouth come from? It is poured out from the pouches of the cheeks, and from under the tongue, by some little living sponges, or juice factories, known ...
— A Handbook of Health • Woods Hutchinson

... that pyramidal stomach which had on its sharp point a diminutive parrot head with two ferocious eyes and around its base the twisted skeins of its arms full of projecting disks. With these it pressed the crab against its mouth, injecting under its shell the venomous output of its salivary glands, paralyzing thus every movement of existence. Then it swallowed its prey slowly with the deglutition of a ...
— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... who are fed naturally. They take all kinds of children's diseases very quickly. The glandular system, which is so readily disturbed in children, is more easily affected in bottle-fed babies. And so it comes about that they often have swollen salivary glands, or swelling of the glands of the neck or of ...
— Maintaining Health • R. L. Alsaker

... Nature's apparatus is more precise than the finest appliances devised for the use of a surgeon by our instrument makers. The fangs are like needles with obliquely cut points and slit-like outlets. The poison glands correspond to the bulb of a syringe. They are, in reality, highly modified salivary glands. From them, when the serpent strikes, is ejected a pale straw-colored half-oleaginous fluid. You might swallow it with impunity. But once in the blood, through a cut or wound, ...
— The Film Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve

... (sal'-i-vary) Glands.—There are three pairs of salivary glands. They form a fluid called the saliva (sa-li'-va). It is this fluid which moistens the mouth at all times. When we eat or taste something which we like, the salivary glands make so much saliva that we sometimes say the mouth waters. One pair of the salivary glands is at the back part of the lower jaw, in front of the ears. The other two pairs of glands are placed at the under side of the mouth. The ...
— First Book in Physiology and Hygiene • J.H. Kellogg



Words linked to "Salivary" :   saliva, salivary gland, salivary calculus, sublingual salivary gland, salivary duct, submandibular salivary gland



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