What's the difference between drool and spittle?

Drool


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Any method employed for the control of drooling must still allow a sufficient volume of flow for mastication, deglutition and oral hygiene.
  • (2) These results are discussed and compared to the alternative drug and surgical approaches to treatment that have been the primary focus of recent research on drooling.
  • (3) The efficacy of a feeding program to decrease drooling and increase vocalizations by promoting mouth closure was explored in two boys with cerebral palsy through the use of oral facilitation techniques.
  • (4) Unhappily, drooling also may lead to several unfortunate medical and psychosocial outcomes for the affected patient.
  • (5) We conclude that drooling, agitation, and absence of cough are predictors of epiglottitis, but clinical findings alone cannot exclude epiglottitis in every child who appears to have laryngotracheitis.
  • (6) I report a series of 20 patients who had excellent results from this, with amelioration of the drooling and minimal postoperative complications.
  • (7) In the case study described, transdermal scopolamine patches were found to be effective for controlling drooling in a traumatic brain-injured patient for whom more conservative methods failed.
  • (8) The calf initially drooled blood-tinged saliva and drank with difficulty.
  • (9) Transposition of the corner of the mouth utilizing the Z-plasty technique has proven to be an effective method to correct the drooling and garbled speech associated with facial paralysis.
  • (10) The bare statistics he provided in various tests and drills left the scouts drooling.
  • (11) At a time when centre-left parties are struggling all across Europe, with the German social democrats reduced to a mere 26% of the vote and Norway's social democratic government pushed into opposition less than two months ago (in spite of a massive oil-based sovereign wealth fund that has Scottish nationalists drooling with envy), Scotland's progressive societal argument based on Nordic and continental models may seem too fanciful for comfort.
  • (12) A tender Théophile wipes the drool from the corner of his mouth, then cries with his mother.
  • (13) He was alert and speaking without difficulty but was drooling, gagging, coughing, and unable to swallow.
  • (14) Transdermal scopolamine patches (1.5 mg) were used to control drooling in a two-year-old boy with severe spastic quadriparetic cerebral palsy and developmental delay.
  • (15) At this point, venture capitalists are drooling over bitcoin and its possibilities,” says Roger Ver, a bitcoin investor and evangelist whose philanthropic donations earned him the nickname “ Bitcoin Jesus ”.
  • (16) This type of medication appears to be useful in the treatment of drooling.
  • (17) We present a case in which troublesome postoperative drooling at the commissures was corrected by a local muscle reconstruction and interdigitation to recreate the normal muscular forces at the angles.
  • (18) We report a 10-year experience with 123 patients who had the surgical treatment for drooling originally described by Wilkie.
  • (19) Simply because he is not begging on a street corner (except when he's busking, which he does with glorious chutzpah) or drooling with a spent needle hanging from his arm, you presume he is doing fine.
  • (20) The surgical procedure resulted in a dramatic decrease in drooling and odor levels.

Spittle


Definition:

  • (n.) See Spital.
  • (v. t.) To dig or stir with a small spade.
  • (n.) A small sort of spade.
  • (n.) The thick, moist matter which is secreted by the salivary glands; saliva; spit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We wish to thank Consultants from the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, The Middlesex Hospital and the Eastman Dental Hospital, who allowed us access to their patients; Mr. D. Garfield Davies, Dr. M. F. Spittle, Mr. D. Winstock, Mr. H. P. Cook, Professor H. C. Killey and Mr. L. W. Kay.
  • (2) But he can further disprove Gilbert's four-year-old spittle.
  • (3) All this, flecked with varying amounts of spittle, is recounted as fact on the net and in US papers.
  • (4) For group B patients, detecting this marker positiveness of 71.5% patients in serum and none in spittle.
  • (5) The treatment needs of the subjects was monitored too and the amount of Streptococco mutans in 6 years old schoolchildren, using spittle drawning, was investigated.
  • (6) Seventeen patients separated in two groups were treated for same: A) (10) positiveness of reply marker in serum, and negative for spittle.
  • (7) You could almost see the spittle flying from his lips,” Ludlam said.
  • (8) Finally, 27.9% reported swallowing the substance or spittle, suggesting the need for further research on the potential health implications of this behavior.
  • (9) The next day I was hauled into the head’s office to be read a spittle-flecked diatribe about how a particular parent felt Thatcher “saved this country from the Argentinians”, and they did not send their child to my school to be “indoctrinated by trendy lefty teachers”.
  • (10) The analysis of the spittle samples drawned in 6 years old schoolchildren points out high levels of Streptococcus mutans as regard those collected in other similar studies achieved by our Department.
  • (11) "The only difference between now and then those lick-spittle Lib Dems have joined the Tories to privatise it.
  • (12) And this is the problem: the unrealistic optimism that is an essential part of human character drives us to believe in miracle cures, whether they be statins, the lottery, or the spittle of a supposed messiah.
  • (13) B) (7) positiveness of reply marker in serum and spittle.
  • (14) These 287 exams consist of 145 bronchic aspiration liquids and 142 spittles.
  • (15) Faced with the BNP , all three mainstream parties, in what had doubtless been the subject of some negotiation by the programme's producers, were seated squarely to the left of the long, curved desk, with David Dimbleby in the centre acting as a reassuring buffer against any anticipated xenophobic spittle.
  • (16) More generally, a chemico-induction produced by material buccal spittle, at the laying, on by excrements is at the origin of these mechanisms.
  • (17) Standing next to David Dimbleby, he maintained an upbeat and optimistic tone, a more effective salesman than the traditional Brexiteer – a bar-room bore in a striped boating club blazer, giving a red-faced, spittle-flecked speech.
  • (18) However, the clinical symptomatology of this syndrome is peculiar, with little muscular mass, a long face with an open mouth from which the spittle runs easily, muscular hypotony, myotatic areflexia of hyporeflexia, normal serum enzymes and E.M.G.
  • (19) Above said was determined throughout DNA molecular hybrid of VHB in serum and spittle.
  • (20) It argued last week that Britain's austerity is "mendacious" spin, and a "con" and, in case you hadn't got the message and been bathed in sufficient spittle, "bare-faced deception".