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单词 sialagogue
释义

sialagoguen.adj.

/ˈsʌɪələɡəʊɡ/
Forms: Also sialogogue.
Etymology: < French sialagogue (1752), or < modern Latin sialagogus, sialagogum, < Greek σίαλον saliva + ἀγωγός leading, drawing forth: compare cholagogue, emmenagogue.
Medicine.
A. n.
A medicine which has the effect of producing a flow of saliva.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > sialogogue
ptysmagogue1730
sialagogue1783
ptyalagogue1842
sialagogic1891
α.
1794–6 E. Darwin Zoonomia (1801) II. 461 Any acrid drug, as pyrethrum, held in the mouth acts as a sialagogue externally by stimulating the excretory ducts of the salivary glands.
1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 448/1 Remote sialagogues are first received into the system by the stomach or other channels.
1855 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica 231 When chewed it acts as a sialagogue, and is sometimes used in relaxed states of the uvula and tonsils.
β. 1783 Encycl. Brit. X. 8153/1 Sialogogues, medicines which promote the salivary discharge.1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 297 Sialogogues, as chewed tobacco, and mercury, have occasionally been used with success.1859 J. Tomes Syst. Dental Surg. 490 The local remedies for toothache,..excepting only sialogogues.
B. adj.
Inducing a flow of saliva.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > secretory organs > action or process of secreting > secreting spec. > [adjective] > secreting saliva > flowing in mouth > producing
salivating1658
salivative1658
salivant1846
mouth-watering1847
sialagogue1855
sialagogic1891
1855 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica 54 Its sialagogue power is shown in the increase of the salivary fluid and mucous secretions of the mouth.
1876 R. Bartholow Pract. Treat. Materia Med. ii. 237 It has remarkable sialagogue property.
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