单词 | salivation |
释义 | salivationn. a. Secretion or discharge of saliva: esp. the production of an excessive flow of saliva by administering mercury. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > action or process of secreting > secreting spec. > [noun] > secretion of saliva salivation1598 1598 T. Bastard Chrestoleros i. xv. 11 Phisition Mirus talkes of saliuation. 1686 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 202 Whore houses increase, surgeons have work, and great salivation used. 1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. ii. 127 Salivation by the internal Exhibition of Mercurials only, seldom succeeds. 1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind vi. §17 [He] having been blind for some years of a gutta serena, was restored to sight by salivation. 1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 570 Salivation, a symptom that is often remarked at the period of teething. 1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xvi. 192 His mouth was still sore in consequence of severe mercurial salivation. 1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 157 Caution must be exercised in the administration of narcotics, should there be much bronchial catarrh or salivation. b. with a and plural. Now Obsolete or rare. ΚΠ 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical x. 112 As if they were all Clapt, and under a Salivation for the cure on't. 1746 H. Walpole Let. to H. Mann 25 Apr. Lord Elcho was in a salivation. 1765 C. Johnstone Chrysal IV. ii. xv. 252 She had lost her hair and teeth in a salivation. 1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica i. 39 An old woman..was affected with a considerable salivation every time she made use of opium. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > slaver > [noun] > spittle spattlec897 spoldOE spattlingc1000 speche?c1225 spita1300 spittinga1300 spotec1350 spittle1481 spettlea1500 salivation1601 spawlings1614 spawl1647 expectoration1650 snivel1698 slabber1718 outspitting1870 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 413 The noysome saliuation or spittle of the Aspis called Ptyas. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 107 Engendered from the salivation and slime of snakes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1598 |
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