What's the difference between drooling and salivation?

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.

Salivation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of salivating; an excessive secretion of saliva, often accompanied with soreness of the mouth and gums; ptyalism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Possible involvement of muscarinic cholinergic neurons in the GTX-III-induced salivation is also suggested.
  • (2) The change in the magnitude of conditioned salivation, latencies of secretion and motor reaction was temporary, and by the end of the third postoperative period their initial magnitudes were restored.
  • (3) Salival flux and other salival characteristics are also analyzed.
  • (4) The bicarbonate concentration in rat parotid saliva increases with increasing flow rates and approximates plasma values at highest salivation.
  • (5) Those symptoms occurring more frequently in PD patients than in controls included abnormal salivation, dysphagia, nausea, constipation, and defecatory dysfunction.
  • (6) Excess salivation improved in four subjects on sodium valproate.
  • (7) Aggressiveness was the most obvious symptom (71%) followed by salivation (48%), paresis and paralysis (28%) and barking (11%).
  • (8) doses of 0.2 and 2 micrograms capsaicin induced bradycardia, hypertension and salivation but no change in insufflation pressure.
  • (9) Atropine abolished heat-induced salivation and endocrine kallikrein secretion, possibly through interference with central pathways (P less than 0.05).
  • (10) All of the clinical signs of milk fever occurred in the experimental model, but there were extra signs (excessive salivation, excessive lip and tongue actions, and tail lifting) which were not present or recorded in naturally occurring cases of hypocalcaemia.
  • (11) Post-operative complications included clenching of teeth in 5 patients, vomiting in 2 and excessive salivation in 3.
  • (12) When blood enzyme activities were 70-100% normal, no obvious signs were seen; at 60-70%, salivation occurred; at less than 30-55%, disturbed ventilation and fasciculations were seen, and at 15-30%, convulsions occurred.
  • (13) Furthermore, acute administration of large doses of pyridostigmine results in salivation and gastrointestinal stimulation well in advance of any impairment of respiratory function.
  • (14) The salivation was frequently stimulated with citric acid solution, then parotid saliva and mandibular-sublingual saliva were collected separately by means of permanent fistulae.
  • (15) These results suggest that two distinct neural pathways exist which mediate reflex salivation in the lower brain stem of the rat, i.e., the taste pathway via the NTS and the nociceptive pathway via the trigeminal sensory nuclei.
  • (16) Five to 10 min after the drug administration, the camels at both dosages showed lacrimation, salivation, trembling, restlessness, frequent urination and defecation, followed by diarrhea.
  • (17) Adverse effects, such as abdominal colic, nausea, salivation, dizziness, and headache, were seen in almost all the patients in those two groups.
  • (18) Among the methods of treatment the most severe inhibition of salivation was noted in the group treated with amitriptyline, the least--after NDULECT.
  • (19) Further, in cats pretreated with ICV reserpine and 6-hydroxydopamine, but not with ICV 5,6-dihydroxytryptamine and hemicholinium, the salivation caused by ICV TRH was abolished.
  • (20) The results indicate that vasopressin, angiotensin II and neurotensin inhibit the action of substance P on salivation at sites other than the parotid cells.

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