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saliva

/suh-lahy-vuh/US // səˈlaɪ və //UK // (səˈlaɪvə) //

唾液,口水,涎水,唾沫

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a viscid, watery fluid, secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands, that functions in the tasting, chewing, and swallowing of food, moistens the mouth, and starts the digestion of starches.

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Examples

  • The tests we’d use are paper strips that require only a saliva sample.

  • This isn’t the first test to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus in saliva, which is easier to collect than samples from nasal passages.

  • In contrast, the UIUC website says that typical saliva test results are available within five hours.

  • As methods became available for measuring cortisol from samples of saliva — rather than having to collect blood or urine — Gunnar set out to study how the HPA axis influences the brain and behavior in humans.

  • Before and after these tasks, researchers collected saliva from each child to measure cortisol levels.

  • Despite the protests of AIDS activists that saliva alone could not transmit the illness, kissing became an industry controversy.

  • We spit our saliva into our spit kits after forgoing food for an hour before.

  • The simple act of extra chewing will help create additional saliva which can aid in digestion.

  • A few of them spat brown saliva into the dust in front of them and then cleaned their mouths with the ends of their turbans.

  • As they rip into the slabs, saliva, sand, and sweat begin seasoning the meat.

  • The mouth is still more ugly without the lip-piece, the teeth appearing, and saliva running through.

  • It acts also upon the secretions—the saliva, milk and bile— which often become actually poisoned.

  • Saliva, like tears, had creative and therefore curative qualities; it also expelled and injured demons and brought good luck.

  • The digestion or change of starch to grape sugar is caused by the presence in the saliva of an enzyme, or digestive ferment.

  • Careful tests of the starch paste and of the saliva made separately will usually show no grape sugar in either.