单词 | sialagogue |
释义 | sialagoguen.adj. 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. 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.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. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.adj.1783 |
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