What's the difference between drooling and drooping?
Drooling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drool
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.
Drooping
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Droop
Example Sentences:
(1) Male volunteers for mass radiography examination, aged 40 or more, were questioned about their sputum production, smoking habits, and, when applicable, their method of smoking cigarettes.Of 5,438 cigarette smokers 460 (8.4%) smoked their cigarettes without removing the cigarette from the mouth between puffs ("drooping" cigarette smokers) whereas the rest smoked in the normal manner.Persons who admitted to producing sputum from their chests on most days of the year or on most days for at least three months of the year for a minimum of two years were classified as chronic bronchitics in the absence of other causative disease.The rate of chronic bronchitis among the "drooping" cigarette smokers (41.5%) was considerably greater than that among those smoking cigarettes in the normal manner (33.6%).
(2) Miliband's pedestrian, drooping delivery did no justice to the ambition of his argument, leaving the packed conference hall sometimes flat.
(3) One side of my face was drooped, I had hearing loss, and just having the worst headache of my life.
(4) The patient has a typical saddle nose and drooping auricles.
(5) The local minimum tumour temperature is explicitly estimated from the power required to maintain each member of an array of electrically heated catheters at a known temperature, in conjunction with a new bioheat equation-based algorithm to predict the 'droop' or fractional decline in tissue temperature between heated catheters.
(6) Your knees creak, your back aches and your fleshy bits droop more than they used to.
(7) They ranged from tail droop to complete lower limb paralysis.
(8) Shoulder droop may induce thoracic outlet syndrome and may simulate scoliosis in the athlete.
(9) In laterally recumbent dogs the lower kidney glides craniad, whereas the upper kidney tends to droop, yielding radiographs in which the upper kidney is often clearer and more bean-shaped than the lower.
(10) A decay that continues rapidly spreads downwards throughout the stalk and the affected plants soon droop.
(11) The pqp mutants display zygotic (spread and drooping wings, cross-vein defects, extra bristles) and maternal (embryonic lethality) recessive phenotypes.
(12) Get with the programme or your ratings will continue to droop like the sad features of a basset hound.
(13) The nose tip should be prevented from drooping by means of columellar supporting grafts.
(14) The author stresses the importance of columellar sensation, nasal tip sensation, and the role of the nasalis muscles in determining the postoperative results of corrective rhinoplasty, especially as these have an influence on the "drooping tip" and the columellar base.
(15) I mean, I don't think I ever wore a bra to prevent droop (ain't got nothing to droop, honey) or backache.
(16) Five normal and 12 droop-winged fledglings were captured, killed, and examined.
(17) The excretory urogram showed a left hydronephrotic lower pole with a "drooping flower" and no opacification of the upper pole.
(18) The clinical signs were characterised by ear drooping, lip commissural paralysis, sialosis, and collection of food on the paralysed side of the mouth.
(19) Symptoms of intoxication in the form of convulsions and tendency of circling in one direction with drooping ears were observed alongwith corneal opacity 40 weeks after the experiment.
(20) Complications included oral wound dehiscence (3 dogs), shifting of the mandible toward the operated side (6 dogs), and drooping of the tongue (2 dogs).